CPSR Education and Training

The Patient Safety and Health Services Research Fellowship trains clinician-researchers in innovative interdisciplinary systems approaches to improve safety, quality, equity, and effectiveness of care. The fellowship is unique in its focus on patient safety, providing clinician-researchers with the knowledge and skills needed to act as independent investigators who lead patient safety and health services research. This program is a Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

PSR Fellowship contact
I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
Administrative Director, Patient Safety Research Fellowship
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu

CPSR has secured a 2-year research training program sponsored by New York State’s Department of Health: the Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program (ECRIP).

With a focus on using health IT to identify and prevent patient safety hazards, junior faculty evaluate innovative, interdisciplinary, and systems approaches to improve safety, quality, equity, and effectiveness of care. Our clinician-researchers gain the knowledge and skills needed to pursue academic careers and become future leaders in hospital-based patient safety and health services research. This postdoctoral research training leverages the vast research resources available at Columbia University, including the Mailman School of Public Health, the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, and NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

PSR Program contact
I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu

CPSR is a growing team that has made major contributions to patient safety science, and continues to apply rigorous research methods to measure medical errors and evaluate the impact of patient safety interventions. We are seeking CUIMC House Staff (“Scholars”) with a strong interest in patient safety to join us for a research elective. Scholars will have the opportunity to develop their own patient safety research project or contribute to ongoing PSR projects, examine existing data sets to answer salient research questions, work with experienced researchers, statisticians, and programmers, and author or coauthor a manuscript for publication.

PSR Elective contact
I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu

Systems, Leadership, Integration, and Management (SLIM) is a unique program designed to provide Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students with the background, knowledge, and essential problem-solving skills to become agents of health system transformation. Jason Adelman, MD, MS, Executive Director of CPSR is Faculty Advisor. The SLIM Summer Patient Safety Research Intensive is a 10-week program where Columbia University medical students have the opportunity to develop PSR projects or contribute to ongoing projects, examine existing data sets to answer salient research questions, work with experienced researchers, statisticians, and programmers, and coauthor a manuscript for publication. SLIM Summer PSR Students have the opportunity to receive a stipend for the summer.

SLIM Summer PSR Intensive contact
I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu

Scholarly Projects in Patient Safety present Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons medical students with a unique opportunity to expand their knowledge and skill sets for conducting patient safety and health services research. Students interested in a Scholarly Project with CPSR will have the opportunity to join an existing patient safety research project, or develop a new project based on a recent adverse event, root cause analysis, or patient safety hazard observed during a clinical rotation. Students commit to 4 months of working on their project: the first 2 months (and preferably 3) are consecutive so students can be immersed in the team and project under the supervision of Jason Adelman, MD, MS, Executive Director of CPSR. Remaining months are used for data analysis and writing a Capstone and possible research paper.

Scholarly Projects in Patient Safety contact
I-Fong Sun Lehman, DrPH, MS
Director, Center for Patient Safety Research
isl2112@cumc.columbia.edu