UMN National Research Service Award in Health Services Research

描述(由申请人提供)：卫生服务研究、政策和管理博士课程的目标是培训卫生服务研究人员，以帮助临床医生、健康保险公司、卫生政策制定者和其他关键决策者努力 改善美国医疗体系的可及性、质量和成本。在该项目的最初几年，AHRQ/NRSA培训项目是我们学生最大、最重要的资金来源，对我们吸引高质量学生的努力至关重要。尽管有些人 我们的教员指导研究中心，并为我们的博士生提供研究助学金，但这些支持来源不足以容纳我们所有的学生或他们所有的研究兴趣。我们最近增加了以患者为中心的结果研究、患者安全和质量、工业和系统工程、人口学和舆论数据分析等重要领域的教师队伍，我们依靠AHRQ/NRSA培训生在一定程度上为那些对这些领域感兴趣的有才华的学生提供稳定的多年支持。虽然我们的博士项目偶尔会直接从本科项目招收学生，但我们的绝大多数学生都拥有硕士学位和几年的工作经验。我们的博士课程有强大的核心课程，包括统计学和计量经济学、研究设计、社会学、经济学、流行病学和研究伦理学。然后，我们的学生选择以下重点领域之一：多学科社会科学、健康与疾病社会学、健康决策科学、健康组织与管理科学、临床结果研究、卫生政策和卫生经济学。或者，学生可以在大学的另一个系获得正式的辅修学位。我们的学生通常在五年左右完成课程，尽管有些学生在短短三年内就完成了课程。我们要求每年总共提供13个实习名额，目的是保证为五名第一年的学生和四名第二年和第三年的博士培训计划的学生提供支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of the Doctoral Program in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration is to train health services researchers to assist clinicians, health insurers, health policymakers, and other key decision-makers in their efforts to improve access, quality and cost in the U.S. healthcare system. In their early years in the program, the AHRQ/NRSA traineeships represent our students' largest and most important source of funding and are crucial in our efforts to attract high quality students. Although some of our faculty direct research centers and hold endowed chairs that provide research assistantships for our doctoral students, those sources of support are not sufficient to accommodate all of our students or all of their research interests. We recently have added faculty in important areas such as patient-centered outcomes research, patient safety and quality, industrial and systems engineering, demography, and analysis of public opinion data, and we rely on AHRQ/NRSA traineeships, in part, to provide stable, multi-year support for talented students whose interests lie in those areas. Although our doctoral program occasionally admits students directly from undergraduate programs, the vast majority of our students have a masters level degree and several years of work experience. Our doctoral curriculum has a strong core curriculum in statistics and econometrics, research design, sociology, economics, epidemiology, and research ethics. Our students then choose one of the following areas of emphasis: Multidisciplinary Social Sciences, Sociology of Health and Illness, Health Decision Science, Health Organization and Management Science, Clinical Outcomes Research, Health Policy, and Health Economics. Alternatively, students can obtain a formal minor in another department in the University. Our students typically complete the program in about five years, although some have finished the program in as little as three years. We are requesting a total of 13 traineeships (slots) per year with the intent of guaranteeing support for five students for thei first year and four students for their second and third years of their doctoral training program.