Biomedical Informatics Research Training at Oregon Health & Science University

描述（由申请人提供）： 俄勒冈州健康与科学医学信息学与临床流行病学系 大学（OHSU）很高兴为其国家医学图书馆（NLM）奖学金培训计划提交第四个五年资助周期的竞争性延续。OHSU计划成立于1992年，一直是该领域的创新者和领导者，我们的这一建议进一步推进了我们对发展生物医学信息学学科的贡献。 OHSU奖学金计划在生物医学信息学的主要目标是培养该领域未来的研究人员和领导者。这些都是令人兴奋的，以及不断变化的时代的纪律。信息技术（IT）在生物医学各个方面的价值已经得到了更大的生物医学界的认可。在OHSU和该领域的其他领先机构，这已经通过指定部门或相关地位以及根据他们在该学科的成就晋升教师来奖励。从OHSU NLM奖学金计划毕业生的核心竞争力是使用信息学理论和应用进行健康和生物医学研究。这项研究的主要目的应该是改善人类健康，以及制定预防和治疗人类疾病的干预措施。此外，毕业生应该能够对信息学相关领域做出科学贡献，包括但不限于医学，护理，公共卫生，其他卫生专业，计算机科学，图书馆和信息科学，认知科学以及组织和管理科学。我们还希望我们的毕业生将成为该领域其他方面的领导者，如教育，思想领导和/或管理。 在下一个资助周期中，我们建议通过划分研究和应用信息学培训的更明确的分离来加强该计划，为医学信息学和生物信息学建立单独的轨道，并扩大其容量。我们还旨在使该计划与OHSU的其他研究中心，计划和部门更紧密地结合起来，并建立更集中的努力来招募，录取和毕业代表性不足的少数民族。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology (DMICE) of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) is pleased to submit a competitive continuation for its National Library of Medicine (NLM) fellowship training program for a fourth five-year cycle of funding. Founded in 1992, the OHSU program has been an innovator and leader in the field, and we this proposal as further advances our contributions to developing the academic discipline of biomedical informatics. The main goal of the OHSU fellowship program in biomedical informatics is to train future researchers and leaders in the field. These are exciting as well as changing times for the discipline. The value of information technology (IT) in all aspects of biomedicine has been recognized by the larger biomedical community. At OHSU and other leading institutions in the field, this has been rewarded through designation of departmental or related status as well as promotion of faculty based on their accomplishments in the discipline. The core competency of graduates from the OHSU NLM fellowship program is to use informatics theory and applications to conduct health and biomedical research. The primary purpose of this research should be to improve human health as well as develop preventive and therapeutic interventions for human disease. In addition, graduates should be able to make scientific contributions to fields related to informatics, including but not limited to medicine, nursing, public health, other health professions, computer science, library and information science, cognitive science, and organizational and management science. We also expect that our graduates will become leaders in the other facets of the field, such as education, thought leadership, and/or administration. In this next cycle of funding, we propose to enhance the program by demarcating a more explicit separation of training for research and applied informatics, establishing separate tracks for medical informatics and bioinformatics, and expanding its capacity. We also aim to align the program more closely with other research centers, programs, and departments at OHSU as well as establish a more concentrated effort to recruit, matriculate, and graduate underrepresented minorities.