Number (#) |
Label |
Competency |
Domain* Examples |
1 |
Foundational knowledge |
Acquire knowledge of the context of health and health care systems, institutions, actors, and environment |
- Health and biology
- Cost & financing of health care
- Organization of health care
- Health policy
- Access and use
- Quality of care
- Social determinants of health
- Health disparities
- Health informatics
- Outcomes and effectiveness
- Resource allocation
- Health behavior
- Cross-cultural and global perspectives
|
2 |
Theoretical knowledge |
Apply or develop theoretical and conceptual models relevant to health services research |
[Variable depending on the discipline or interdisciplinary area of specialization]
- Theory construction
- Economics
- Epidemiology
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Management
- Political science
- Anthropology
- Operations research
- Demography
|
3 |
Relevant and important HSR question development |
Pose relevant and important research questions, evaluate them, and formulate solutions to health problems, practice and policy |
- Scientific method and theory
- Proposal/grant development
- Assessment of evidence
- Gap analysis
- Stakeholder analysis
|
4 |
Conceptual models and operational methods |
Use or develop a conceptual model to specify study constructs for a health services research question and develop variables that reliably and validly measure these constructs |
- Scientific method and theory
- Measurement and variables
- Conceptual and analytic (empirical) models
- Causal models
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
|
5 |
Study designs |
Describe the strengths and weaknesses of study designs to appropriately address specific health services research questions |
- Study designs
- Observational vs. experimental designs
- Survey research
- Qualitative research designs
- Quantitative research designs
- Mixed method designs
- Intervention research
- Community based participatory research
- Evaluation research
- Quality improvement
|
6 |
Data collection and management methods |
Sample and collect primary health and health care data and/or assemble and manage existing data from public and private sources |
- Survey research
- Qualitative research
- Operations research
- Data acquisition
- Data mining
- File creation and database management
- Quality control
- Sampling
- Health informatics
|
7 |
Research conduct management |
Execute and document procedures that ensure the reproducibility of the science, the responsible use of resources, the ethical treatment of research subjects |
- Responsible conduct of research
- Ethics
- Authorship
- Conflict of interest
- Research integrity
- Human subjects/IRBs
- HIPAA
- Contracts, MOUs, DUAs
- Quantitative research
- Qualitative research
- Data acquisition
- Quality control & DMBs
- Research study management
- Organizations as subjects
- Health care law and risk management
- Budget development and management
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8 |
Data analysis |
Demonstrate proficiency in the appropriate application of analytical techniques to evaluate HSR questions |
- Economic evaluation
- CEA/CBA
- Statistics, biostatistics and econometric methods
- Estimation and prediction methods
- Operations research and decision sciences
- Analysis of complex samples
- Advanced qualitative analytic methods
- Advanced quantitative analytic methods
- Meta-analysis
|
9 |
Professional development |
Work collaboratively in teams within disciplines, across disciplines, and/or with stakeholders |
- Teamwork
- Leadership
- Team management
- Conflict resolution
- Knowledge management
- Project management
- Negotiation
- Teaching
- Mentoring
- Cross-cultural and global perspectives
- Lifelong learning
|
10 |
Communication |
Effectively communicate the process, findings, and implications of health services research through multiple modalities with stakeholders |
- Proposal development
- Dissemination
- Communication skills
- Marketing and persuasion techniques
- Writing skills
- Writing for scientific journals
- Cultural sensitivity
- Cross-cultural and global perspectives
|
11 |
Knowledge transfer |
Knowledge translation to policy and practice |
- Evidence based practice
- Evidence based policy
- Human factors research
- Health marketing
- Implementation science
- Translational research
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