AHRQ NRSA Institutional Research Training Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：社区与预防医学系在罗切斯特大学正在寻求AHRQ的国家研究服务奖（NRSA）计划提供的支持，以其成功的博士前和博士后计划在卫生服务研究和政策的延续。 在卫生服务研究和政策的博士前和博士后课程的使命是教育和培训学生和研究员教和组织，融资，交付，质量和医疗保健服务的结果进行独立的研究。 受训人员准备在学术界，医疗保健提供者和管理式医疗机构的研究和规划职位，以及政府和政策分析组织的职业生涯。 该培训计划强调统计，计量经济学，经济学和流行病学以及研究兴趣的几个专业领域的定量严谨性：老年人和长期护理的卫生服务;妇女和儿童的卫生服务;成本效益和医疗决策;以及管理式护理和医疗保健市场的表现。 在这两个前和博士后课程的学员受益于在社区和预防医学系在过去几年中开发的几项举措。 这些措施包括建立一个数据实验室，最初由美国人权问题咨询委员会创新赠款供资，使研究员能够获得非常丰富的数据来源，从而能够研究包括儿童、妇女和老年人在内的重要和美国人权问题咨询委员会优先考虑的人口; K30奖方案导致开发了专门的技能建设课程，如赠款撰写和技术交流;临床研究人员的MPH，这对希望获得更正式培训的博士后研究员特别重要;以及预防心脏病学和社区卫生信息学的博士后课程。 认识到培训计划的成功，其对机构的重要性，并响应NIH对训练有素和合格的卫生服务研究人员的需求，医学院增加了其支持和博士前课程的规模，从两个到六个进入学生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Community & Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester is seeking continuation of the support provided by AHRQ's National Research Service Award (NRSA) program to its successful pre-doctoral and post-doctoral programs in health services research and policy. The mission of the pre- and post-doctoral programs in health services research and policy is to educate and train students and fellows to teach and conduct independent research of the organization, financing, delivery, quality and outcomes of health care services. Trainees are prepared for careers in academia, health care provider and managed care organizations in research and planning positions, and in government and policy analysis organizations. The training program emphasizes quantitative rigor in statistics, econometrics, economics and epidemiology and several specialized areas of research interests: health services for the elderly and long term care; health services for women and children; cost effectiveness and medical decision making; and performance of managed care and health care markets. Trainees in both the pre- and post-doctoral programs benefit from several initiatives that were developed in the last several years in the Department of Community & Preventive Medicine. These include the development of a data laboratory, initially funded through an AHRQ innovations grant, which offers fellows access to very rich data sources that allow study of important and AHRQ priority populations, including children, women and the elderly; the K30 awards program that resulted in development of specialized skill building courses such as grant writing and technical communication; the MPH for clinical investigators which is of particular relevance to post-doctoral fellows who wish to obtain more formal training; and the post-doctoral programs in Preventive Cardiology and Community Health Informatics. In recognition of the success of the training program, its importance to the institution, and in response to the need identified by NIH for highly trained and qualified health services researchers, the School of Medicine has increased its support and the size of the pre-doctoral program from two to six entering students.