Health Services Research/Academic Generalist Fellowship
The Academic Generalist Fellowship / Health Services ResearchProgram at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC is a collaborative effort between the College of Medicine including the Divisions of General Pediatrics and General Internal Medicine, the College of Nursing and the College of Pharmacy. The fellowship program is supported by AHRQ's National Research Service Fellowship Program and the HRSA Faculty Development Fellowship Program. The two to three year program is implemented through MUSC's Center for Health Disparities Research and coordinated with the MUSC Clilnical & Translational Science Award (CTSA). The program is designed to prepare physicians, post-doctoral nurses, and pharmacists for productive academic careers as educators and as investigators in health services research. Sample research content areas include Immunization Delivery, Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, Access to Care, Geriatrics, Health Information Technology, Pharmacoeconomics, Psychiatric Health Services Research and Childhood Health Services Research. Clinical/research work will be within the specialty of the fellows. Each fellow earns a Master of Science in Clinical Research. Requirements include attending the fellowship seminar series, participation in a bi-weekly journal club, learning statistical software during the first year in the research, and professional development components. Who To be eligible for this fellowship program, candidates must be board eligible or board certified by the beginning of the fellowship and plan a career as an academic faculty member. Federal guidelines restrict fellowships to U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Members of underrepresented minority groups are particularly encouraged to apply. Where Fellowship positions are located at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. When Beginning July, 2011 Missions & Goals | Program Structure | Candidates | Fellowship Faculty | Current Fellows | Publications
Research Venues | How To Apply Missions & Goals The mission of the Health Services Research/ Academic Generalist Fellowship Program at the Medical University of South Carolina is to prepare fellows for academic careers as educators and investigators. The fellowship program will train physicians, post-doctoral nurses, and pharmacists in the following areas: - 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
- Design innovative curriculum and other educational programs
The program design combines a rigorous educational curriculum and mentored research activities in an environment that emphasizes multidisciplinary Health Services Research (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 Academic Generalist Fellowship / Health Services Research Program 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. Program Stucture All fellows are involved in the following learning activities - research, professional development, and teaching. For primary care fellows, clinical duties will be in the specialty of their divisions. Fellows will be enrolled in the Master of Science in Clinical Research and have weekly seminars based on the following core components: - Research Training: The research component begins in the first summer with a research institute that is designed as an introduction to research and to statistical programming. The core curriculum, which starts in the fall semester, is the Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR) in the Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology at MUSC. Course work is supplemented with a Works in Progress 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.
- Education and Teaching: This area emphasizes the principles of adult education through a combination of didactic sessions, teaching opportunities and observed and evaluated teaching. Fellows are introduced to innovative strategies and technologies for teaching and evaluation. Technologies include distance learning, standardized teaching and computer based teaching.
- Professional Development: As part of the professional development curriculum, the fellows will learn and practice communicating research results. This is to supplement the education and teaching skills curriculum and to introduce the fellows to academic culture. Seminar topics in this area include time Management, CV preparation, Writing Workshops, and Writing an Abstract. Other topics include Serving the Underserved, State of the Art in Managed Care and Community- Based Partnerships.
Candidates To be eligible for this fellowship program, physicians will have finished residency, be board eligible or board certified and plan a career as an academic faculty member in health services research. Nurses and pharmacists should have a doctoral degree. 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 and by Department of Health and Human Service, Health Resources and Services Administration and The Bureau of Health Professions Fellowship Faculty William T. Basco, M.D.
Program Director and Clinical Director for General Pediatrics
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Amy Blue, Ph.D.
Director of Evaluation
Office of Dean, College of Medicine Thomas C. Hulsey, Sc.D.
Director of Research Component
Professor, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology William Moran, M.D.
Clinical Director for General Internal Medicine
Professor, Department of Internal Medicine Kit Simpson, Dr.P.H
Program Co-Director and Program Committee
Professor, Pharmacy Gail Stuart, Ph.D., APRN, BC, FAAN
Program Co-Director and Program Committee
Dean, College of Nursing Current Fellows Sujeev Bains, M.D. Sujeev Bains graduated cum laude from Albion College with a BA in Biology and Psychology in 1995. He then completed his MS in Biomedical Sciences at Wayne State University in 1997 where his thesis was on multidrug resistant tuberculosis in underserved populations. He went on to receive his MD from Meharry Medical College in 2001 and completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at Saint Louis University Hospital in 2004. During residency, he was involved in a basic science project to study polymorphisms in the IL-4 receptor in patients with cystic fibrosis. Following residency, Dr. Bains worked as a hospitalist at a tertiary care center in Akron, Ohio where he was involved with resident teaching and patient care. His primary clinical research interests include health literacy and health behaviors among various socioeconomic groups and he plans to pursue a career as an academic internist following his fellowship. Dan Williams, M.D. Daniel Williams, MD graduated cum laude from Furman University where he received his BS in Biology in 2003. He received his MD from East Tennessee State University’s Quillen College of Medicine in Johnson City, Tennessee in 2007 and was a member of their chapter’s Alpha Omega Alpha honors society. He then when on to complete his internship and residency in Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2010 and stayed on as Chief Resident of Pediatrics for the 2010-2011 academic year. As a resident at MUSC, his research interests have focused on resident education specifically in the area of pediatric resuscitation and the effect of high-fidelity simulation on resident comfort and performance. He also has a strong interest in clinical research and hopes after he completes his Academic Generalist Fellowship, to pursue a career as a general pediatric hospitalist at an academic medical center. Chang Wu, M.D. Chang L. Wu, MD graduated cum laude from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where he received his BS in Chemistry in 2003. He received his MD from Emory University School of Medicine in 2007. He then went on to complete his internship, residency, and chief resident year in Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2011. During residency, his research foci included high-fidelity simulation as a means to improvement resident physician comfort and proficiency in pediatric resuscitation as well as quality improvement initiatives for improving resident physician education. Following residency, Dr. Wu has continued to work as a clinical instructor in a medically-underserved area of rural South Carolina. His primary clinical research interests include disparities in pediatric asthma management and graduate medical education with the goal of pursuing a career as a pediatric hospitalist in an academic medical center upon completion of his fellowship training. Publications (link) Fellowship completers: Publications Since 1998: (Rev. 09/2011) Research Venues How To Apply To be eligible for this fellowship program, physicians will have finished residency, be board eligible or board certified and plan a career as an academic faculty member in health services research. Nurses and pharmacists should have a doctoral degree. 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 and by Department of Health and Human Service, Health Resources and Services Administration and The Bureau of Health Professions. Please download and edit this fellowship application to apply for the Health Services Research/Academic Generalist Fellowship Program. Contact Us William Basco, M.D., Program Director
William Moran, M.D., M.S., General Internal Medicine
135 Rutledge Avenue, No. 280
MSC 561
Charleston, SC 29425-5610
Phone: 843-876-8512
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