Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：范德比尔特大学提议对其生物医学信息学培训计划进行为期五年的续签。该项目始于2001年，提供生物医学信息学的硕士和博士学位，以及非学位博士后和短期培训经验。该项目经历了高素质申请者的稳步增长，目前有超过25名实习生，其中包括16名由我们的NLM培训补助金资助的博士前和博士后学生，现已进入第九个年头。该培训计划的管理机构生物医学信息学系(DBMI)也同样成长起来--师资、资源和生产力--成为被广泛认为是全国顶级信息学课程之一。范德比尔特大学医疗中心和弗吉尼亚州田纳西谷医疗系统的信息学丰富的环境提供了堪称典范的“动手”培训经验。硕士和博士学位课程包括生物医学信息学的核心课程，以及计算机科学、生物医学和研究方法论的基础学科。寻求学位的学生在以下几个应用领域之一集中学习：临床信息学、翻译生物信息学和临床研究信息学(正在开发中)。我们继续提供研究密集型非学位博士后奖学金。2012-2017年期间，范德比尔特要求每年提供15个全日制培训职位(9个博士前和6个博士后)和4个短期培训职位。通过Meharry-Vanderbilt联盟，我们将继续招募寻求生物医学信息学培训的Meharry学生、毕业生和住院医生，并将招聘努力扩大到来自其他机构的代表性不足的少数族裔。范德比尔特大学独特的丰富和培育信息学的环境是该机构高级领导层20多年来共同愿景的结果，即对数据、信息和知识的有效管理将是该大学及其医学中心在本世纪的竞争优势。在生物医学信息学教育的这一独特环境中，我们的首批学生在发展新知识方面表现出色，推动信息学成为一门科学学科。它们是范德比尔特生物医学信息学项目已经达到NLM生物医学信息学研究人员培训目标的最有力证据，并将继续这样做。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Vanderbilt University proposes a five-year renewal of its Biomedical Informatics Training Program. Begun in 2001, the program offers MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Informatics, as well as nondegree postdoctoral and short-term training experiences. The program has experienced steady growth in high quality applicants and currently has more than 25 trainees, including 16 predoctoral and postdoctoral students funded by our NLM training grant, now in its ninth year. The Training Program's administrative home, the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), has likewise grown - in faculty, resources, and productivity - to become widely regarded as among the top informatics programs nationally. The informatics-rich environments of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System provide "hands on" training experiences that are exemplary. The MS and PhD degree programs include a core curriculum of courses in biomedical informatics and the foundation disciplines of computer science, biomedicine, and research methodology. Degree- seeking students pursue concentrated study in one of several application domains: clinical informatics, translational bioinformatics, and clinical research informatics (in development). We continue to offer research-intensive nondegree postdoctoral fellowships. For the period 2012- 2017, Vanderbilt requests a total of 15 full-time training positions (9 predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral) and 4 short-term training positions per year. Through the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance, we will continue to recruit Meharry students, graduates, and residents who seek training in biomedical informatics and expand recruitment efforts to underrepresented minorities from other institutions. The uniquely rich and nurturing environment for informatics at Vanderbilt is a result of the shared vision of the senior leadership of the institution for more than 20 years, that effective management of data, information and knowledge will be the competitive advantage for the university and its medical center in the current century. In this unique setting for education in biomedical informatics, our inaugural group of students has excelled in developing new knowledge that advances informatics as a scientific discipline. They are the strongest evidence that the Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Program has met the NLM's objectives for biomedical informatics researcher training and will continue to do so.