San Diego Biomedical Informatics Education & Research (SABER)

描述（由申请人提供）：对合格的生物医学信息学（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，并且是该国生物技术的第三大中心和无线通信的第一大中心，但历史上没有BMI的培训。我们建议以生物医学和计算机科学的交叉点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（DBMI），其在UCSD医学院，工程/计算机科学和药学院，UCSD医疗中心，圣地亚哥超级计算机中心，加州电信和信息技术研究所的许多合作者，几家当地公司已经联合他们的优势，在圣地亚哥实施了一项计划，提供一套核心BMI能力的培训，同时还提供专业化是毕业生在学术界和工业研发部门竞争最佳职位所必需的。我们的博士前学员专门报名参加生物信息学博士课程的BMI课程。我们的博士后学员与医疗保健相关的博士学位通常进入BMI集中区在计算机科学与工程科学硕士课程。BMI课程包括课程作业和丰富活动，并由DBMI教师运行。来自几个部门的研究导师补充了DBMI教师的专业知识，为学员提供包容性的环境，以获得独立研究职业所需的技能。

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.