Indiana Health Services Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：我们的总体目标是开发和实施印第安纳州卫生服务研究（I-HSR）培训计划——一个创新的培训计划，将培养有才华的临床和跨学科研究者进行研究，通过优化卫生服务的可及性、质量和成本效益，并将研究转化为实践和政策，从而改善儿童和成人的健康。I-HSR培训计划有三个主要组成部分：(1)完成为期两年的正式课程，在课程结束时，学员将获得公共卫生、临床研究或其他感兴趣领域（如信息学或卫生管理）的硕士学位；(2)参加卫生服务研究系列研讨会；(3)在I-HSR教师的指导下积极参与卫生服务或TRIPP研究。完成I-HSR项目的学员将在卫生服务和临床研究方法、生物静力学、医学信息学、临床试验、系统重新设计、研究伦理、转化研究、科学写作和拨款准备方面培养核心能力。此外，他们还将获得一个结构化的研究指导计划，该计划与明确的基准时间表相关联。这种教学课程和受监督的研究经验的结合将导致发展和/或提高受训者的研究技能和知识，这是从事卫生服务研究事业所必需的。我们相信，当学员积极参与研究时，正式的课程作业是最有意义的。因此，我们的培训项目是一个综合项目，正式的课堂课程与学员的研究相辅相成。项目教师的专业知识以及主要参与部门过去的研究议程将允许I-HSR项目的学员在AHRQ的八个优先领域中的任何一个领域进行研究议程。我们建议在第一年支持4名博士后，其中2名参与儿科I-HSR项目，2名参与成人I-HSR项目。所有受训者将完成2年的培训。在第2年到第5年，我们将选择3到4名额外的学员，这样在第1年之后的任何一个时间点，我们最多将有7名学员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Our overall goal is to develop and implement the Indiana Health Services Research (I-HSR) Training Program - an innovative training program that will prepare talented clinical and interdisciplinary investigators to conduct research that will improve the health of children and adults by optimizing access, quality and cost effectiveness of health services and translating research into practice and policy. There are three main components to the I-HSR Training Program: (1) completion of a two-year formal curriculum, at the end of which the trainee will receive either a master's degree in public health, clinical research or in another field of interest such as informatics, or health administration; (2) participation in the Health Services Research Seminar Series; and (3) active involvement in health services or TRIPP research under the mentorship of an I-HSR faculty member. Trainees who complete the I-HSR program will develop core competencies in health services and clinical research methods, biostatics, medical informatics, clinical trials, system redesign, research ethics, translational research, scientific writing, and grant preparation. In addition, they will be provided with a structured research mentoring program linked to an explicit timeline with benchmarks. This combination of didactic coursework and supervised research experience will result in the development and/or enhancement of trainees' research skills and knowledge, which are necessary for a career in health services research. We believe that formal coursework is most meaningful when applied to research in which the trainee is actively engaged. Therefore our training program is an integrated program where the formal classroom curriculum complements and parallels the trainee's research. The expertise of the program faculty as well as the past research agendas of the major participating departments will allow trainees of the I-HSR program to pursue a research agenda in any of AHRQ's eight priority areas. We propose supporting four postdoctoral trainees in year one, with two of the trainees participating in the Pediatric I-HSR program and two trainees participating in the Adult I-HSR program. All trainees will be expected to complete 2 years of training. In years two through five, we will select three or four additional trainees so that at any one point and time after year 1, we will have a maximum of seven trainees.