Boston-Area Research Training Program in Biomedical Informatics

波士顿地区生物医学信息学研究培训计划

• 批准号: 8089587
• 负责人: Alexa T. McCray
• 金额: $ 141.44万
• 依托单位: HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8089587
• 关键词: Address; Area; Bioinformatics; Boston; Clinical; Collaborations; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Faculty; Goals; Health Sciences; Health Technology; Health system; Healthcare; Home environment; Hospitals; Individual; Informatics; Institutes; Interdisciplinary Study; Joints; Mentors; Methodology; Mission; Monitor; Postdoctoral Fellow; Public Health Informatics; Records; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Training; Science; Students; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Undifferentiated; biomedical informatics; career development; improved; interest; medical schools; multidisciplinary; pre-doctoral; programs

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The centrality of informatics in all aspects of biomedical science and in health care practice highlights the need for well-trained individuals capable of carrying out and leading multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research in this discipline. This proposal is aimed at continuing and improving upon a Boston-area Biomedical Informatics Research Training (BIRT) program, which has this mission. BIRT brings together in a coordinated program a wide variety of activities already under way at MIT, Harvard, affiliated institutes and area hospitals. Training will focus on three main areas: (1) bioinformatics, (2) clinical/health systems informatics, and (3) public health informatics. Because of complementary predoctoral training support for area (1), BIRT will not duplicate that, but will support training in this area for originally undifferentiated predoctoral students discovering interest in bioinformatics, for transition into the other training program, and for postdoctoral fellows. Besides addressing in-depth needs of each focus area, the goal for BIRT is to provide an integrated and comprehensive approach to addressing common methodologies, infrastructure challenges, and cross-cutting problems, and to develop critical mass and synergies, to enhance mentoring and career development of trainees. The administrative and academic home of the BIRT program is the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. A new Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics will seek to imbue a culture of collaboration and interaction for research and training, through a variety of initiatives. We are requesting support in the BIRT program for 5 predoctoral students and 19 postdoctoral fellows per year, almost all of whom will be in research MS or PhD programs. The wide variety of courses at Harvard and MIT, multiple productive research centers, and strong mentoring records of a distinguished faculty give both depth and breadth to this venue for training. New courses will be developed over the next several years, and the areas of concentration further delineated and strengthened. Continued monitoring of our trainees and graduates will be carried out to aid in program assessment and improvement:

描述（由申请人提供）： 信息学在生物医学科学的各个方面和医疗实践中的中心地位突出了对训练有素的个人的需要，他们能够在这门学科中开展和领导多学科和跨学科的研究。该提案旨在继续和改进波士顿地区生物医学信息学研究培训（BIRT）计划，该计划具有此使命。BIRT将麻省理工学院、哈佛大学、附属研究所和地区医院正在进行的各种活动汇集在一个协调的方案中。培训将集中在三个主要领域：（1）生物信息学，（2）临床/卫生系统信息学，和（3）公共卫生信息学。由于领域（1）的补充博士前培训支持，BIRT将不会重复，但将支持在这一领域的培训，为原来未分化的博士前学生发现生物信息学的兴趣，过渡到其他培训计划，并为博士后研究员。除了解决每个重点领域的深入需求外，BIRT的目标是提供一种综合全面的方法来解决共同的方法、基础设施挑战和跨领域问题，并发展临界质量和协同作用，以加强对受训人员的指导和职业发展。BIRT计划的行政和学术之家是哈佛-麻省理工学院联合健康科学与技术部。一个新的哈佛医学院生物医学信息学中心将寻求通过各种举措，为研究和培训注入一种合作和互动的文化。我们正在申请BIRT项目的支持，每年有5名博士前学生和19名博士后研究员，几乎所有人都将参加研究型MS或博士课程。宽 哈佛和麻省理工学院的各种课程，多个富有成效的研究中心，以及杰出教师的强大指导记录，使这个培训场所既有深度又有广度。今后几年将开发新的课程，并进一步划定和加强重点领域。我们的学员和毕业生的持续监测将进行援助计划评估和改进：