Medical Informatics Research Training Program at Columb*

描述(由申请人提供)： 哥伦比亚大学提议在#年继续其由NLM支持的培训计划 医学信息学，始创于1992年，1997年扩大。我们的目标是 帮助塑造生物医学信息学的不断发展的学科 严格的、以学术为导向的培训计划，提供补充 接触真实世界系统，在CPMC的临床环境中和在 通过哥伦比亚基因组中心及其新生的生物科学 计算生物学和生物信息学中心。我们的培训计划 寻求进一步的领域发展和未来的质量 研究通过向学生和生物医学界演示 医学信息学涉及生物医学知识的基本问题和 信息、它们的表示及其在生物医学上的应用。我们有 因此，我们制定了一套课程，以确保我们的毕业生将 熟悉该领域广泛的相关主题。每位实习生 然后在该领域内选择一个子专业化领域， 已建立的轨道是临床信息学、公共卫生信息学、 成像信息学，或生物信息学。我们的学位通常需要 硕士至少两年，博士至少四年，尽管大多数 学生花的时间稍长一些。 我们的项目预计有50多名研究生和博士后实习生。 2001年9月。自我们的学位获批以来，我们的47名毕业生中 计划中，我们已经毕业了4名博士生，其中两名是NLM资助的。我们 我们的研究硕士项目有15名毕业生，其中11名是NLM 支持。我们剩下的28名毕业生都获得了应用硕士学位，但 未支持任何NLM。我们有一个大型的，国际公认的 一直参与国家医学信息学项目的教师。 我们对学员的教育包括与教职员工一对一的体验 成员们，从事的研究项目在许多情况下是由 学生们自己。几乎所有的实习生都是正式的学位候选人， 来自系内和优秀资源的课程作业 在哥伦比亚大学有售。教职员工、科研人员和学生 形成一个为研讨会提供挑衅性环境的临界群体， 杂志俱乐部和信息讨论。我们的临床信息系统 服务责任为学员提供获得第一手服务的机会 接触和培训最先进的临床、教育、 管理和研究信息系统。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Columbia University proposes to continue its NLM-supported training program in medical informatics, initiated in 1992 and expanded in 1997. Our goal is to help to shape the evolving discipline of biomedical informatics by defining a rigorous, academically oriented training program that offers complementary exposures to real-world systems, both in clinical settings here at CPMC and in the biological sciences through the Columbia Genome Center and its nascent Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Our training program seeks to further the development of the field and the quality of future research by demonstrating to its students and to the biomedical community that medical informatics addresses fundamental issues of biomedical knowledge and information, their representation, and their biomedical application. We have accordingly developed a curriculum that assures that our graduates will be familiar with a broad range of pertinent topics in the field. Each trainee then selects an area of subspecialization within the field, with the established tracks being clinical informatics, public health informatics, imaging informatics, or bioinformatics. Our degrees generally require a minimum of two years for the M.A. and four years for the Ph.D., although most students take somewhat longer. We expect over 50 graduate students and post-doctoral trainees in our program in September 2001. Among our 47 graduates since approval of our degree program, we have graduated 4 PhD students, two of whom were NLM supported. We have had 15 graduates of our research masters program, 11 of whom were NLM supported. Our remaining 28 graduates have earned applied masters degrees, but none has been NLM supported. We have a large, internationally recognized faculty with consistent involvement in national medical informatics projects. Education for our trainees involves one-on-one experience with faculty members, working on research projects that in many cases are conceived by the students themselves. Almost all trainees are formal degree candidates and take coursework from within the Department and from the excellent resources available at Columbia University. The faculty, research staff and students form a critical mass for providing a provocative environment for the seminars, journal clubs, and information discussions. Our clinical information systems service responsibilities offer trainees opportunities to get first-hand exposure to and training on state-of-the-art clinical, educational, administrative, and research information systems.