Training in Healthcare Financing, Organization and Delivery for Aging Populations

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求在宾夕法尼亚大学为老龄化人口提供医疗融资，组织和交付的MD-PhD学生培训提供五年的支持。博士培训将成为沃顿商学院卫生保健管理系全国杰出博士课程的一部分，并紧密结合到宾夕法尼亚州佩雷尔曼医学院的医学博士课程中，该医学院是全国顶尖的医学院之一。学生将参加专门的培训，在老龄化在他们的MD和博士年。我们的主要目标是培养优秀的医生-研究人员，他们将成为教师、学者和领导者，通过对医疗保健组织、融资和交付的研究，提高老龄人口接受护理的效率和有效性。我们将通过识别有才能的个人并在以下方面对他们进行培训来实现这一目标： 使用基于经济学的研究方法来回答重要的政策相关问题。该计划提供了凝聚力的培训，包括：核心教学课程，在卫生保健系统，统计学，经济学;核心教学课程，在老龄化（老龄化轨道）;在老龄化相关的主题论文工作;参与老龄化相关的临床指导和培训;参与多学科研讨会;以及在医疗保健融资、组织和老龄化人口交付的临床和研究组成部分方面的强化指导。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests five years of support for MD-PhD student training in the healthcare financing, organization and delivery for aging populations at the University of Pennsylvania. The PhD training will be part of the nationally preeminent PhD program at the Wharton School in the Health Care Management Department, and tightly integrated into the MD program in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine, one of the nation's top medical schools. Students will participate in dedicated training in aging throughout their MD and PhD years. Our primary goal is to train outstanding physician-investigators who will become teachers, scholars, and leaders in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of care received by aging populations through research on health care organization, financing, and delivery. We will accomplish this goal by identifying talented individuals and training them in the use of economics- based research methods to answer important and policy-relevant questions. This program offers cohesive training consisting of: core didactic courses in health care systems, in statistics, and in economics; core didactic courses in aging (aging track); thesis work in an aging-related topic; participation in aging-related clinical mentoring and training; participation in multidisciplinary seminars; and intensive mentoring in both the clinical and research components of health care financing, organization, and delivery for an aging population.