The objective of the school is to provide the students with solid and comprehensive expertise in the design, implementation, and monitoring of the DRG-based healthcare financing models, Development of quantitative and statistical skills will be emphasized through practical demonstrations and student exercises of case mix data using standard software packages. Faculty for the winter school will consist of between 4 and 6 people.
Faculty will be recruited from international experts in the design and application of casemix-based funding systems. More information on faculty will be available by the end of August 2010.
Draft schedule of the school:
http://www.pcsinternational.org/uploads/2011_Winter_School_Curriculum.pdf
Admission Criteria and Other Details
1. Ability to work and study in English language (verbal and written).
2. Some hands on experience with at least one statistical software package (e.g. SAS, R, SPSS, STATA, other).
3. Some exposure to one or more applications of case mix system in current or past employment.
4. Understanding of statistical concepts such as densities, probability and expectations, elementary statistical distributions (normal, t, chi-square).
5. Basic familiarity with statistical modelling (linear regression, logistic regression, survival analysis).
6. Students will be required to bring their own laptop to the school with R statistical software loaded on the laptop. Click here for information on R and to download it. Also required on the laptop is a word processor application such as Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel, and a presentation application such as Microsoft Powerpoint.
7. Since demand is expected to exceed the maximum number of students, student’s admission to the winter school will be based on theirexperience and projected impact on their work. The maximum number of students that will be accepted is 20.
8. Enrolment from any one institution/organization may be limited to three students based on demand.
Applications are to be submitted by October 22, 2010 by email to the Jeff Hatcher, the winter school coordinator. Jeff’s email address is jhatcher@cihi.ca. The Winter School will notify you of acceptance, or not, by October 29, 2010 by email.
PCSI Casemix Winter School 2011 - Dublin, Ireland
