WORKSHOP: AMIA Doctoral Consortium 2014

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约12名有前途的博士生和5名杰出研究人员组成的研讨会。该活动是第七届医学信息学社会技术问题博士联盟，将于11月15日至19日在华盛顿特区与美国医学信息学协会（AMIA） 2014年年度研讨会一起举行。每年秋季举行，这是美国首屈一指的AMIA会议和最大的生物医学信息学会议，吸引了来自各种职业环境的研究人员，专业人士和学生，他们对卫生信息技术的各个方面感兴趣。有关会议的更多信息可在（http://www.amia.org/amia2014）上找到。在医学信息学中，一个特别重要的问题是需要设计/部署系统，了解这些系统如何适应组织和社会环境。“社会技术”一词指的是将技术问题和组织/社会问题放在一起而不是分开考虑的重要性。例如，医学信息学社区长期以来一直对电子病历（EMR）的技术特征感兴趣，但很少关注EMR的设计将如何受到系统主要用户的影响，它被使用在什么环境中，以及它应该支持什么交互。然而，为了设计有效的电子病历系统，我们需要了解这些不同问题是如何相互影响的。对跨学科（例如，HCI和医学信息学）整合研究的日益增长的需求是这个博士联盟的主要动机。因此，学生参与者将跨越广泛的学科和方法，为医学信息学提供信息，包括计算机科学，信息科学，工程，临床科学，法律，管理和相关领域。博士联盟将在AMIA研讨会之前的周末举行，这样学生们也可以参加会议，这将向他们介绍医学信息学社区内令人兴奋的研究主题。相反，将来自不同学科的新一代学者引入医学信息学社区，将拓宽该社区对其他研究学科可以提供医学信息学的理解。该联盟将为博士生提供一个论坛来分享他们的工作，并与其他博士生和研究人员建立联系。学生参与者将在联盟期间做简短的演讲，并将从知名研究人员那里获得建设性的评论和反馈，并通过与其他学生的互动获得反馈。反馈的目的是帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关研究，他们的主题是否充分集中在论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。因此，该联盟将帮助塑造这些正在进行的和未来的跨学科和多学科研究项目，重点关注与健康相关的技术的组织和社会问题。被接受的参与者的姓名和摘要将刊登在AMIA计划指南中，并将在组织者开发的一个特别网站上向公众提供。博士联盟将把来自不同学科的人聚集在一起，否则他们可能不会相互接触，并将使他们接触不同的科学研究方法和问题。它将通过允许年轻研究人员在他们之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员之间建立一个支持性的指导和社会网络，在年轻研究人员中培养一种社区意识。组织者将采取协调一致和积极主动的努力，确保多样化的学生参与者，包括STEM学科中代表性不足的群体的成员；反过来，这将开阔学生的视野，为该领域的未来带来好处。

This is funding to support a workshop of approximately 12 promising doctoral students along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event, the 7th doctoral consortium on Sociotechnical Issues in Medical Informatics, will take place in conjunction with the 2014 Annual Symposium of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in Washington DC on November 15-19. Held every fall, this is the premier AMIA conference and the largest biomedical informatics conference in the United State, attracting researchers, professionals and students from an array of occupational settings who are interested in all aspects of health information technologies. More information about the conference may be found at (http://www.amia.org/amia2014. One issue that is of particular importance within medical informatics is the need to design/deploy systems with an understanding of how these systems fit into organizational and social contexts. The term sociotechnical denotes the importance of considering technical and organizational/social issues together rather than in isolation. For instance, the medical informatics community has long been interested in the technical features of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), but less attention has been paid to how the design of the EMR will be affected by who the primary users of the system are, what context it is used in, and what interactions it should support. Yet, to design effective EMR systems, we need to understand how these different issues impact each other. The growing need for integrating research across disciplines (e.g., HCI and Medical Informatics) is the primary motivation for this doctoral consortium. Therefore, student participants will span a broad range of disciplines and approaches that inform medical informatics, including computer science, information science, engineering, clinical sciences, law, management and related fields. The doctoral consortium will take place on the weekend prior to the AMIA Symposium so the students can also participate in the conference, which will introduce them to the exciting breadth of research topics within the medical informatics community. Conversely, bringing a new generation of scholars from different disciplines into the medical informatics community will broaden that community's understanding of what other research disciplines can offer medical informatics.The consortium will provide a forum for doctoral students to share their work and also network with other doctoral students and researchers. Student participants will give short presentations during the consortium and will receive constructive remarks and feedback on their research from prominent researchers as well as through interaction with other students. The feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. Thus, the consortium will help shape both these ongoing and future inter- and multi-disciplinary research projects focusing on organizational and social issues surrounding health-related technologies. The names and abstracts of the accepted participants will be printed in the AMIA program guide, and will also be made available to the public on a special website to be developed by the organizers.The doctoral consortium will bring together people from different disciplines who might not otherwise engage with one another and will expose them to different scientific research approaches and questions. It will foster a sense of community among the young researchers by allowing them to create a supportive mentoring and social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. The organizers will make a concerted and proactive effort to ensure a diverse pool of student participants including members of under-represented groups in the STEM disciplines; this, in turn, will broaden the students' horizons to the future benefit of the field.