PhD Training in Health Services Research and Healthcare Quality Improvement

描述（由申请人提供）：该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有跨学科的接触和分析工具，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。他们应该了解并对应用干预和评价研究的现实作出反应，并从系统的角度熟练掌握卫生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项目以人口健康科学系（PHS）为基础。我们继续与工业与系统工程（ISyE）和RWJ健康与社会学者计划保持合作关系。我们还通过新的美国国立卫生研究院资助的临床和转化研究所（ICTR）与西澳大学的四所学院（护理、药学、工程和公共事务）建立了正式的合作伙伴关系。这四个场馆的交汇处为培训项目提供了一个理想的场所。拟设立博士前培养计划，设5个博士前培养岗位和2个博士后培养岗位。博士前培训职位将大约2/3分配给PHS攻读博士学位的学生，1/3分配给ISyE（隶属于患者安全系统工程倡议）攻读博士学位的学生。学生们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学者计划和美国国立卫生研究院资助的新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各样的研讨会、讲习班和培训机会。这些伙伴关系还将促进直接接触在社区参与性研究等领域与拟议项目相关的广泛专业知识的教师。17位高度跨学科的教师导师在所有AHRQ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.