The University of Chicago Patient Centered Outcomes Research K12 Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：以患者为中心的结果研究(PCOR)是一项研究，旨在帮助人们和他们的照顾者沟通并做出知情的医疗决策，让他们的声音在评估医疗选项的价值时被听到。PCOR强调比较对人们重要的选择的结果，优先考虑个人差异，例如在偏好以及接受护理的社会经济和临床背景下。国家有一个重要的需求，就是培训变革和组织振兴方案的科学家。我们计划的最终目标是在PCOR产生独立的调查人员。由于独立性的发展通常需要超过K12机制所允许的3年以上的培训，我们的计划主要针对2组K12学者：1)没有与PCOR相关的先前培训的初级教职员工和研究员，对于他们来说，培训计划可以成为通往个人职业发展奖(例如个人K奖)或机构培训补助金支持的桥梁，以完成通常向独立过渡所需的全部5年培训；以及2)具有2年或更多与PCOR相关培训的初级教职员工和研究员，该奖项可以支持他们完成PCOR培训所需的课程，并有时间发展独立(例如，R01)资金。我们建议的培训方案从变革和组织振兴方法的广泛基础开始，强调变革和振兴方案的核心能力。然后，该计划在此基础上增加实验、模拟和观察性PCOR方法和应用方面的重点能力，重点放在医疗差距和医疗保健提供改进和系统改革方面。我们的计划还包括为每个学员提供明确定义但个性化的指导和职业发展方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) is research that helps people and their caregivers communicate and make informed health care decisions, allowing their voices to be heard in assessing the value of health care options. PCOR emphasizes comparing the outcomes of choices that matter to people, with priority to individual differences, such as in preferences and in the socioeconomic and clinical contexts in which care is received. There is an important national need to train scientists in PCOR. The ultimate objective of our program is to produce independent investigators in PCOR. Since development of independence typically requires more than the 3 years of training allowed under this K12 mechanism, we focus our program on 2 sets of K12 scholars: 1) junior faculty and fellows without prior training relevant to PCOR for whom the training program can be a bridge to an individual career development award (e.g., individual K award) or institutional training grant support to complete a full 5 years of training typically required for transition to independence, and 2) junior faculty and fellows with 2 or more years of training relevant to PCOR for whom the award can support courses needed to complete training in PCOR and time to develop independent (e.g., R01) funding. Our proposed training program begins with a broad foundation in PCOR methods, emphasizing core competencies in PCOR. The program then builds on this base by adding focused competencies in experimental, simulation-based, and observational PCOR methods and applications foci in health disparities and health care delivery improvement and system reform. Our program also includes a clearly defined but individualized approach to Mentorship and Career Development for each trainee.