PhD Training in Health Services Research and Healthcare Quality Improvement

描述(由申请人提供)：本培训计划的目标是培养高技能的卫生服务研究人员，他们在应用研究环境、系统和质量改进以及定量评估方法方面具有强大的跨学科基础。虽然我们的学生最终可能只在AHRQ的一个优先领域进行详细的研究，但我们希望看到他们拥有跨学科的经验和分析工具，使他们能够理解临床政策、组织政策和公共政策之间的相互联系。他们应该了解和回应应用干预和评价研究的现实，并熟练掌握从系统角度进行保健服务研究和质量改进的一般分析方法。最后，他们还应该了解与社区组织合作的基本原则。我们的T32计划是基于人口健康科学部(PHS)的。我们继续与工业与系统工程(ISyE)和RWJ健康与社会学者计划建立合作伙伴关系。我们还通过新成立的美国国立卫生研究院资助的临床与翻译研究所与威斯康星大学的四所学校和大学(护理学、药剂学、工程学和公共事务)建立了正式的合作关系。这四个场馆的交叉为培训计划提供了理想的场所。我们提出了博士后培训计划，包括5个博士后培训岗位和2个博士后培训岗位。博士前培训职位将大约三分之二分配给攻读小灵通博士学位的学生，三分之一分配给攻读ISyE(附属于患者安全系统工程倡议)博士学位的学生。学生分享核心人口健康课程(健康决定因素、流行病学、卫生服务研究、医疗保健质量和统计学方法)，以及人因工程、卫生系统工程或现代质量改进方法的工业应用课程。与RWJ学者计划和新的NIH资助的研究所的正式合作伙伴关系也将使我们的学员能够利用各种研讨会、研讨会和培训机会。这些伙伴关系还将促进直接接触到在社区参与性研究等领域拥有与拟议项目相关的广泛专业知识的教师。17名高度跨学科的教师导师在AHRQ的所有优先领域提供研究机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The objective of this training program is to produce highly skilled health services researchers who have a strong interdisciplinary foundation in applied research settings, systems and quality improvement, and quantitative evaluation methods. Although our students may each eventually conduct detailed research only in one of the AHRQ priority areas, it is our desire to see that they have interdisciplinary exposures and analytic tools allowing them to understand the interlinkages between clinical policy, organizational policy, and public policy. They should understand and be responsive to the realities of applied intervention and evaluation research as well as be skilled in general analytic methods for health services research and quality improvement from a systems perspective. Finally, they should also understand the fundamentals of partnering with community-based organizations. Our T32 program is based in the Department of Population Health Sciences (PHS). We have continued our previous partnership with Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and the RWJ Health and Society Scholars Program. We have also developed a formal partnership with four UW schools and colleges (Nursing, Pharmacy, Engineering, and Public Affairs) through the new NIH-funded Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). The intersection of these four venues provides an ideal place for a training program. We propose a pre-doctoral training program with 5 predoctoral training positions and 2 postdoctoral training positions. Predoctoral training positions will be distributed roughly 2/3 to students pursuing the PhD degree in PHS and 1/3 to students pursuing the PhD degree in ISyE (affiliated with the Systems Engineering Initiative in Patient Safety). Students share core population health courses (determinants of health, epidemiology, health services research, quality in healthcare, and statistical methods) as well as courses in human factors engineering, health systems engineering, or industrial applications of modern quality improvement methods. The formal partnerships with the RWJ Scholars Program and the new NIH-funded Institute will also allow our trainees to take advantage of a wide variety of seminars, workshops, and training opportunities. These partnerships will also facilitate direct access to faculty with broad expertise relevant to the proposed program in areas such as community-based participatory research. Seventeen highly interdisciplinary faculty mentors offer research opportunities in all the AHRQ priority areas.