Track III– The Clinical Scholar Track:

This track is designed to train future academicians whose area of research endeavor and contribution will strengthen the academic mission and serve health care delivery and advocacy. This Track has identified mentors who are leaders in their field and will work with the trainee to create and modify existing curricula to meet their interest and mentor their research project.

a) Medical Informatics Training Program: Only candidates who have definitive career objectives in medical informatics research are accepted for this program. The program is designed to provide a two year integrated experience through course work and research experience. Course work is designed to provide an overview of medical informatics together with a foundation in the area (s) of informatics relevant to the trainee’s research goals

Although there are no formal prerequisites for postdoctoral trainees, they are expected to have designed a research training project prior to the beginning of their program in conjunction with a faculty sponsor.

Research projects available include:
~ Electronic Medical Record
~ Wireless Technologies
~ Telemedicine
~ Data Analysis Techniques
~ Medical Decision Making
~ Artificial Intelligence

b) Health Policy Certificate Program: Duke University, through the Center for Health Policy, Law and Management, offers an interdisciplinary certificate in Health Policy. The program speaks to the needs of students preparing for careers in health care policy, management and the associated professions.
Courses in the health policy certificate program address three interrelated goals:

(1) to investigate the machinery of contemporary health policy-making and to understand the broad political dynamics which have conditioned American health policy, past and present;
(2) to familiarize students with the institutional and economic foundations of American health care through study of the interaction between the key players in health care financing and organization – employers, private insurance carriers, government regulators, health care providers and consumers;
(3) to explore the cultural and ideological underpinnings of modern conceptions of health and the recurrent ethical dilemmas facing health care providers and policy-makers.

c) Program in Medical Humanities and Medical Ethics:

The Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities aims to promote excellence in scholarship and teaching in medical ethics and the medical humanities. The Center creates an interdisciplinary forum where physicians and scholars can examine important questions at the intersection of medicine, ethics, and the humanities. Students in this track pursue individual research projects in medical ethics, medical history, or religion and medicine with one of the humanities mentors. The study track will typically include formal course work in philosophy, history, or religion that is relevant to the thesis topic.

d) Studies in Medical Economics and Financing:

Financial Preformance Laboratory- fellows will be trained in the use of descriptive and multivariate analysis tools used to analyze complex financial databases. Fellows complete formal coursework in statistics offered by Duke University as well as advanced statistical coursework offered by SAS in Cary, NC. Fellows develop an independent research project under the guidance of David Tanaka, M.D.

 

Scholarly Researchers:

a) Health Policy and Economics:
b) Medical Computing and Informatics:

Current Clinical Research Funding:

a) Informatics Research Funding:

 

Educational Initiatives:

a) Masters Program in Biomedical Engineering:
b) Masters Program in Medical Informatics:
c) Masters Program in Health Policy:
d) Masters Program in Health Finance:
e) Masters Program in Clinical Research:

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