University of Utah Biomedical Informatics Training

描述（由申请人提供）： 犹他州大学正在向国家医学图书馆（NLM）申请第二次更新培训补助金。我们的长期目标是继续研究信息学卓越的计划， 延续了1964年的传统在我们第一次更新以来的五年里，有103名研究生参加了培训。在我们总共10年的资助，超过60 NLM资助的研究生已经完成了培训或目前正在攻读学位。 我们目前有41名博士预科生和30名博士后候选人，共有71名活跃的学生;其中40%以上专注于博士研究。在过去的十年里，所有系研究生的20%到30%得到了NLM培训补助金的支持。 该提案的具体目标是培养研究生和博士后学生，以发展临床，公共卫生和翻译/遗传应用领域的广泛信息学研究专业知识。在新的系主任，谁也是这个补助金的PI的方向下，我们最近修订和更新了我们的核心课程，强调基础技能和应用熟练程度的广泛标题下的20个核心能力。这次课程审查还为我们的三个培训领域以及新培训课程和经验的开发确定了重点。 犹他州大学生物医学信息学系正在新领导的带领下不断发展和变革，在这里我们描述了迄今为止我们的培训成功以及我们在新资助期内扩大的培训范围。 公共卫生信息学被定义为研究创建信息和管理知识的系统，以了解，保护和改善社会健康。我们的公共卫生信息学计划将培训学生开发和应用技术，以帮助公共卫生从业人员开展这些活动。我们将培训学生建立工具，帮助教育工作者，研究人员，医生和社区中的个人定义和解决公共卫生问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Utah is applying for the second renewal of its training grant with the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Our long term objective is to continue a program of research informatics excellence, carrying forward a tradition that dates back to 1964. In the five years since our first renewal, 103 graduate students have entered training. In our total 10 years of funding, over 60 NLM-funded graduate students have completed training or are currently working towards a degree. We currently have 41 predoctoral and 30 postdoctoral candidates for a total of 71 active students; over 40% of whom are focused on doctoral research. Twenty to thirty percent of all Departmental graduate students have been supported by the NLM training grant over the past ten years. The specific aims of this proposal center on training graduate and postdoctoral students to develop broad informatics research expertise in clinical, public health, and translational/genetic application areas. Under the direction of a new Department Chair, who is also the PI of this grant, we have recently revised and updated our core curriculum that stresses 20 core competencies under the broad rubrics of foundational skills and applications proficiency. This curriculum review is also creating focus for our three training areas and the development of new training courses and experiences. The Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah is in the process of growth and change with new leadership, and here we describe our training successes to date as well as our expanded scope of training for this new funding period. Public Health Informatics has been defined as the study of systems for creating information and managing knowledge to understand, protect, and improve health in society. Our public health informatics program will train students in the development and application of technologies that will aid public health practitioners in these activities. We will train students to build tools that will assist educators, researchers, physicians, and individuals in the community to define and address public health issues.