PhD Training in Health Services Research and Healthcare Quality Improvement

该培训计划的目标是培养高技能的卫生服务研究人员， 在应用研究环境、系统和质量改进方面具有强大的跨学科基础， 定量评价方法虽然我们的学生最终可能只会进行详细的研究， 作为AHRQ的优先领域之一，我们希望看到他们具有跨学科的曝光和分析能力， 工具，使他们能够了解临床政策，组织政策和公共政策之间的相互联系， 政策它们应了解并顺应实际干预和评价的现实 研究以及熟练掌握卫生服务研究和质量的一般分析方法 从系统的角度进行改进。最后，他们还应该了解 与社区组织合作。我们的T32计划是基于人口部 健康科学（PHS）。我们继续与工业和系统公司保持合作关系 工程（ISyE）和RWJ健康与社会学者计划。我们还制定了一个正式的 通过与四所华盛顿大学的学校和学院（护理，药学，工程和公共事务）合作， 新的NIH资助的临床和转化研究所（ICTR）。这四个的交集 场馆为训练提供了理想的场所。 我们提出了一个博士前培养计划，有5个博士前培养岗位和2个博士后培养岗位 岗位博士前培训职位将分配给攻读博士学位的学生约2/3 1/3的学生攻读ISyE博士学位（隶属于系统工程 患者安全倡议）。学生分享核心人口健康课程（健康的决定因素， 流行病学，卫生服务研究，医疗保健质量和统计方法）以及课程， 人因工程、卫生系统工程或现代质量的工业应用 改进方法与RWJ学者计划和新的NIH资助的正式伙伴关系 研究所还将允许我们的学员利用各种研讨会，讲习班和培训 机会这些伙伴关系还将促进直接接触具有广泛专业知识的教师， 在社区参与式研究等领域提出的方案。17高度 跨学科的教师导师提供所有AHRQ优先领域的研究机会。

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 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.