San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)

描述（由申请人提供）：对合格生物医学信息学（BMI）研究人员的需求从未如此之高。虽然圣地亚哥拥有各种高度多样化的医疗机构，并且是全国第三大生物技术中心和第一无线通信中心，但历史上没有BMI培训。我们建议用一个以生物医学和计算机科学交叉为中心的平衡培训计划来填补这一空白。生物医学信息学部门（DBMI）及其在加州大学圣地亚哥分校医学院、工程/计算机科学和药学院、加州大学圣地亚哥分校医学中心、圣地亚哥超级计算机中心、加州电信和信息技术研究所、几家当地公司已经联合他们的优势在圣地亚哥实施了一个项目，该项目提供BMI核心能力的培训，同时也为毕业生提供在学术界和研发部门竞争最佳职位所需的专业化培训。我们的博士预科生专门进入生物信息学博士项目的BMI轨道。我们拥有医疗保健相关博士学位的博士后学员通常会进入BMI集中领域的计算机科学与工程硕士课程。BMI课程由课程作业和丰富活动组成，由DBMI教师管理。来自多个部门的研究导师补充了DBMI教师的专业知识，为学员提供了包容性的环境，以获得独立研究事业所需的技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The demand for qualified biomedical informatics (BMI) researchers has never been so high. Although San Diego hosts a variety of highly diverse healthcare institutions and is the #3 hub for biotechnology and #1 for wireless communications in the country, there has historically been no training in BMI. We propose to fill this gap with a balanced training program centered at the intersection of biomedicine and computer science. The Division of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI), its many collaborators in the UCSD Schools of Medicine, Engineering/Computer Science, and Pharmacy, the UCSD Medical Center, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and several local companies have joined their strengths to implement a program in San Diego that offers training in a core set of BMI competencies while also providing specialization that is needed for graduates to compete for the best positions in academia and R&D departments in industry. Our pre-doctoral trainees enroll specifically into the BMI track in the Doctoral Program in Bioinformatics. Our post- doctoral trainees with healthcare-related doctorates typically enroll into the BMI concentration area in the Master's of Science Program in Computer Science and Engineering. The BMI curriculum consists of coursework and enrichment activities and is run by DBMI faculty. Research mentors from several departments complement the expertise of DBMI faculty, providing inclusive environments for trainees to acquire skills that are necessary for independent research careers.