Faerber Adrienne, Andrews Alice, Lobb Ano, Wadsworth Eric, Milligan Katherine, Shumsky Robert, Fisher Elliott, Lahey Tim
Master of Health Care Delivery Science Program, Dartmouth, United States; The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, United States.
Dell Medical School at the University of Texas-Austin, United States.
Healthc (Amst). 2019 Dec;7(4). doi: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2018.12.002. Epub 2019 Jan 4.
Health care delivery science focuses on ways to improve health and health care services provided to individuals and populations. Health care professionals must be trained in health care delivery science in order to diagnose and treat the sources of health care system dysfunction and achieve better outcomes while controlling costs. The ideal model for health care delivery science training has not been fully defined, but doing so is critical especially for frontline mid-career health care professionals whose original clinical training omitted these concepts. To better prepare leaders to address the complex challenges of health care, we created a novel hybrid residential/online 18-month master's degree in health care delivery science. Key strengths of the program are the curriculum, pedagogy, teaching team and close-knit cohort. Here, we discuss the program design rationale and six years of evaluation data of a novel master of health care delivery science program. Novel online education in health care delivery science can empower inter-professional leaders in multiple leadership positions throughout health care to improve the United States health care system.
医疗服务科学专注于改善为个人和人群提供的健康及医疗服务的方法。医疗保健专业人员必须接受医疗服务科学方面的培训，以便诊断和治疗医疗系统功能障碍的根源，并在控制成本的同时取得更好的效果。医疗服务科学培训的理想模式尚未完全确定，但这样做至关重要，尤其是对于那些最初的临床培训遗漏了这些概念的一线职业生涯中期医疗保健专业人员。为了更好地培养领导者应对医疗保健的复杂挑战，我们创建了一个新颖的混合式住校/在线18个月的医疗服务科学硕士学位。该项目的主要优势在于课程设置、教学方法、教学团队和紧密团结的学员群体。在此，我们讨论一个新颖的医疗服务科学硕士项目的项目设计原理和六年的评估数据。医疗服务科学方面新颖的在线教育可以使医疗保健领域多个领导职位的跨专业领导者有能力改善美国的医疗保健系统。
