Institutional Training Programs (T32s)

Duke University, Durham

Duke University Medical Center/Durham VAMC

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Contact

David Edelman, M.D.
Director, Postdoctoral Training Program
Health Services Research (152)
Duke University Medical Center/Durham VAMC
508 Fulton Street
Durham, NC 27705
Phone: (919) 286-6936

Web site: http://www.durham.va.gov/

Content Areas

• Primary Care Research.
• Chronic Disease Management.
• Priority and Vulnerable Populations (racial/ethnic variations in access and utilization of health care, older adults, chronically ill).
• Mental Health.
• Women's Health.
• Provider-Patient Communication.
• Evidence-based Medicine.
• Clinical Policy Research.
• Clinical Outcomes and Effectiveness Research.
• Chronic Disease Management.

Program Description

This postdoctoral fellowship program provides opportunities for clinical and research doctorates to develop health services research skills in primary care. The objectives of this proposal are to make fellows into excellent health services researchers by 1) offering a didactic curriculum that will teach fellows the fundamental skills required to perform clinical research; and 2) providing the time and outstanding mentorship fellows need to develop their own research ideas and complete their own research projects.

Each fellow makes a minimum 85% time commitment to didactic clinical research training and mentored health services research. The didactic curriculum, centered around the Clinical Research Training Program at Duke University Medical Center has core courses in research design, basic statistical analysis, research management, advanced (multivariable) statistical analysis, and research ethics. In addition, fellows participate in a writing and publishing workshop. Fellows with unusual research interests (e.g. health economics/policy, palliative care) may take courses offered at non-medical campuses at Duke University, including the Fuqua School of Business and the Divinity School.

Fellows select a research mentor early in the first-year of the two-year fellowship and plan with that mentor a health services research project of their own devising. The program's philosophy is that research skills are best learned by carrying an idea from inception to publication rather than primarily helping experienced researchers on existing projects. Therefore, fellows are required to develop their own ideas rather than only assuming a role in established studies. At the end of two years, fellows are expected to have two manuscripts prepared for submission and have a research idea that is within a few months of being fully enough developed that it can be submitted as a research proposal for funding.

The center maintains a network of research and education affiliations including various departments and research centers at Duke (e.g., the Center for Clinical and Health Policy Research, the Center for Aging and Human Development) and the University of North Carolina (e.g., School of Public Health).

Current as of November 2007

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Internet Citation:

Institutional Training Programs (T32s): Duke University. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/fund/training/T32-10.htm

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