National Research Service Award Fellowship in Health Services Research Program
To Prepare Physicians, Post-Doctoral
Nurses, and Pharmacists for Careers in Health Services Research
The Medical University of South Carolina is pleased to announce a two-year National Research Service Award Fellowship Program in Health Services Research designed to prepare physicians, post-doctoral nurses, and pharmacists for productive academic careers in health services research. This two-year program is implemented through the Center for Health Care Research and coordinated with the MUSC Department of Biometry and Epidemiology. Each fellow earns a Master of Science in Clinical Research.
Mission
The mission of the MUSC National Research Service Award Fellowship Program is to prepare fellows for academic careers as educators and investigators in health services research. The fellowship program will train physicians, post-doctoral nurses, and pharmacists to:
- Conduct health services research in an applied research setting
- Stimulate improvement in the health care system's responsiveness to diverse groups of patients, including minority, poor, and other underserved patients, both as direct providers and as health services researchers
- Serve as role models and mentors in health services research
Program Goals
The MUSC National Research Service Award Fellowship Program (NRSA) in Health Services Research (HSR) will provide a 2-3 year research training experience designed specifically for physicians, post-doctoral nurses and pharmacists. The program design combines a rigorous educational curriculum and mentored research activities in an environment that emphasizes multidisciplinary HSR approaches to emerging issues in our changing healthcare system. The program faculty includes specific expertise and mentoring skills in identified areas of national need, such as outcomes/health status and quality measurement, biostatistics, epidemiology, health economics, decision analysis, cost effectiveness analysis, and health policy. The MUSC NRSA fellowship program is designed to provide a sound conceptual, methodological and practical foundation in health services research and to prepare successful academic health service researchers and educators.
All fellows are involved in four learning activities - research, professional development, primary care, and teaching. Fellows will be enrolled in the Master of Science in Clinical Research and have weekly seminars based on the following core components:
- The research training has several sections: The core curriculum is the Masters Program in Clinical Research in the Department of Biometry and Epidemiology. Course work is supplemented with a seminar series with topics of research methods, critical evaluation of the literature and research opportunities with faculty involved in the program. Fellows will do an individual research project under the guidance of an advisory committee. They will also be involved in grant writing though obtaining funding is not a prerequisite for the research project. Fellows also participate in and are an integral part of a journal club designed to guide them in critical reading of the literature.
- The professional development curriculum has two components: As part of the teaching and learning curriculum, the fellows will learn and practice communicating research results. This will be accomplished through a combination of didactic sessions, teaching opportunities, and evaluated teaching. The second is to supplement the administrative and organizational skills curriculum and to introduce the fellows to academic culture. Seminar topics in this area include Interdisciplinary Health Care, Serving the Underserved, State of the Art in Managed Care and Community- Based Partnerships.
Candidates
To be eligible for this fellowship program, an individual must be board eligible or board certified and plan a career as an academic faculty member in health services research. Additionally, each trainee must be a US citizen or have a visa permitting permanent residence in the US. Members from minority groups that are underrepresented are particularly encouraged to apply. An underlying assumption of the fellowship program is that the entering fellows are clinically competent in their specialty. Clinical time will be limited to no more than 30% of the total with most of that involving teaching or precepting medical students, residents or other professions in clinical settings.
This program is funded in part by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Extramural Research, Education and Priority Populations.
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Inquiries and applications should be directed
to:
Anne S. Ross, M.P.A., Fellowship Program Coordinator
135 Rutledge Avenue, Suite 280
PO Box 250837
Charleston, SC 29425
Phone (843) 876-1217 FAX (843) 876-1201
email: rossas@musc.edu
NRSA Fellowship Faculty
Research Venues
- Center for Health Care Research
- MUSC Medical Center
- Environmental Hazards Program
- Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Administration Medical Center
- McClennan Banks Adult Primary Care Clinic