University of Utah Biomedical Informatics Training

描述(由申请人提供)： 犹他大学正在向国家医学图书馆(NLM)申请第二次续签其培训补助金。我们的长期目标是继续一项卓越的研究信息学计划， 发扬一项可以追溯到1964年的传统。自我们第一次续签以来的五年里，已有103名研究生进入培训。在我们总共10年的资助中，超过60名由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名博士后和30名博士后候选人，总共有71名活跃的学生；其中超过40%的人专注于博士研究。在过去的十年里，所有系研究生中有20%到30%得到了NLM培训助学金的资助。 这项建议的具体目标是培养研究生和博士后，以发展临床、公共卫生和翻译/基因应用领域的广泛信息学研究专业知识。在一位新的系主任的指导下，我们最近修订和更新了我们的核心课程，该课程强调基础技能和应用熟练程度这两大类下的20项核心能力。这次课程审查也为我们的三个培训领域以及开发新的培训课程和经验创造了重点。 犹他大学生物医学信息学系正处于新领导层的成长和变革过程中，我们在这里介绍我们迄今取得的培训成功，以及我们在这一新的资助期扩大的培训范围。 公共卫生信息学被定义为研究创造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者在这些活动中。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.