University of Utah Medical Informatics Training

犹他州大学正在向美国国家图书馆申请第二次更新培训补助金。 医学（NLM）。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，103名毕业生 学生们已经开始训练。在我们总共10年的资助中，超过60名NLM资助的研究生 已完成培训或正在攻读学位。 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;超过40% 其中，博士研究的重点。20%到30%的系研究生 在过去的十年里，一直得到NLM培训补助金的支持。 本建议的具体目标是培养研究生和博士后学生， 在临床、公共卫生和转化/遗传应用领域的信息学研究专长。下 一个新的系主任的方向，谁也是这个补助金的PI，我们最近修改， 更新了我们的核心课程，强调20个核心能力下的基础广泛的标题 技能和应用熟练程度。这次课程审查也为我们的三个培训领域创造了重点 以及开发新的培训课程和经验。 犹他州大学的生物医学信息学系正处于成长和变革的过程中 在这里，我们描述了我们迄今为止的培训成功以及我们扩大的范围， 在新的融资期内。 公共卫生信息学被定义为研究创建信息和管理信息的系统 了解、保护和改善社会健康的知识。我们的公共卫生信息学计划将 培训学生开发和应用技术，帮助公共卫生从业人员 这些活动。我们将培训学生构建工具，以帮助教育工作者，研究人员，医生， 社区中的个人来定义和解决公共卫生问题。

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.