Advanced Training Health Service Research

描述（由申请人提供）：宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院的卫生保健系统系，以及普通内科和伦纳德戴维斯卫生经济学研究所要求额外五年的资金，以支持每年在宾夕法尼亚大学卫生服务研究博士课程中培养两名博士后和八名博士前学生。 申请人为每个学生寻求两到三年的支持。 其余培训（共四至五年）的资金将来自其他来源。 最初的NRSA赠款，于1986年颁发，是帮助大学建立一个教育计划，已成为全国领先的博士课程之一，在卫生服务研究。 该计划将几个传统学科的密集研究生水平培训与卫生服务研究，跨学科课程，导师研究经验以及与教师和研究员的合作相结合。 该计划的课程和教师的研究兴趣是高度一致的NRSA计划的总体目标，并与AHRQ的优先领域和研究的类型，其中寻求培训。 学生接受了以下方面的培训：1.卫生经济学; 2）卫生系统管理; 3）成果衡量; 4）质量衡量和质量激励; 5）生物统计学; 6）流行病学; 7）决策分析; 8）成本效益和成本效益分析; 9）质量和成本权衡或互补性分析; 10）服务不足人口的卫生成果和方案; 11)保险经济学;以及一系列其他医疗服务问题。 在所有这些领域，宾夕法尼亚大学拥有优秀的教师，拥有完善的研究记录和正在进行的研究项目。 该大学的NRSA计划的毕业生已经在学术界的职业生涯，高度知名的研究机构，并与政府的研究职能。 AHRQ/NRSA资助学生的学费和助学金对于维持这一卓越方案至关重要。 该计划建立在沃顿商学院，医学院，经济学系，生物统计学和流行病学系，伦纳德戴维斯健康经济学研究所之间的密切教学和研究合作的基础上，所有这些都在宾夕法尼亚大学，以及儿童医院的成果研究中心。 医学院和沃顿商学院之间的紧密联系使这个项目对医生和非医生都具有很大的吸引力。 该计划包括通过多种渠道加强招收少数民族学生的计划，包括与宾夕法尼亚大学健康教育和研究多样性卓越中心的密切合作，这是一项由HRSA资助的计划，旨在促进少数民族问题的研究，少数民族学生和教师的招聘和保留，以及推进少数民族教师的领导作用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Pennsylvania's Health Care Systems Department at the Wharton School, together with the Division of General Internal Medicine and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics request five additional years of funding to support the training of two post-doctoral and eight pre-doctoral students per year in the PhD program in Health Services Research at the University of Pennsylvania. The applicant seeks support for two to three years for each student. Funding for the remainder of their training (a total of four to five years) will come from other sources. The original NRSA grant, awarded in 1986, was instrumental in helping the University establish an educational program which has become one of the nation's leading PhD programs in Health Services Research. This program combines intensive graduate-level training in several traditional academic disciplines with advanced study in health services research, cross-disciplinary coursework, research experience with mentors, and collaboration with faculty and fellows. The program curriculum and the research interests of the faculty are highly congruent with the overall goals of the NRSA program and with the priority areas of AHRQ and the types of research for which training is sought. Students have been trained in: 1) health economics; 2) health systems management; 3) outcomes measurement; 4) quality measurement and quality incentives; 5) biostatistics; 6) epidemiology; 7) decision analysis; 8) cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis; 9) analysis of quality and cost tradeoffs or complementarities; 10) health outcomes and programs for underserved populations; 11) insurance economics; and a host of other health services issues. In all these areas, the University of Pennsylvania has excellent faculty with well-established research records and on-going research programs. Graduates of the University's NRSA program have gone on to careers in academia, highly reputed research institutes, and research functions with government. AHRQ/NRSA funding to support tuition and stipends for students is essential to the maintenance of this program of excellence. The program builds on the close teaching and research collaboration between the Wharton School, the School of Medicine, the Department of Economics, the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, all at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Center for Outcomes Research at Children's Hospital. The strong connections between the Medical School and the Wharton School make this program highly attractive to physicians as well as to non-physicians. The program incorporates plans to intensify efforts to recruit minority students through several channels, including closer collaboration with Penn's Center for Excellence for Diversity in Health Education and Research, a HRSA-funded program promoting research in minority issues, minority student and faculty recruitment and retention, and advancing leadership roles of minority faculty.