Medical Informatics Programs in the United States Go Back

Date Compiled: June 2006

University	Degrees	Department(s)	Degree Requirements	Sampling of Research Interests
Arizona School of Health Sciences	MS in Medical Informatics	Medical Informatics
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Medical Informatics Fellowship
Grand Valley State University	MS Medical and Bioinformatics - nonthesis	Computing & Information Systems	36 credits with a cumulative GPA of 3.0
Harvard Medical School	HST MS in Biomedical Informatics	MIT	66 credit hours + Masters Thesis
Harvard Medical School - MIT - NEMC Research Training Program	MS in Medical Informatics	The Decision Systems Group	66 units of graduate credit plus a Master's thesis	representation of medical knowledge; Decision support systems; Machine learning models, Clinical workstations
Indiana University	Medical Informatics Fellowship	Medical Center and Regenstrief Institute
Medical College of Wisconsin and the Milwaukke School of Engineering	MS in Medical Informatics	joint offering of Milwaukee School of Engineering and the Medical College of Wisconsin	54 credit hours -42 required coursework, 6 elective credits, 6 intership/research
Northwestern University	MS in Medical Informatics	School of Continuing Studies
Nova Southeastern University	MS in Medical Informatics	College of Ospeopathic Medicine	43 credit hours
Oregon Health and Science University	MA, PHD, Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics	Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemology	MS: 52 credit hours, non-thesis, completion of ; GCP: 24 credit hours	Areas of research include electronic medical records, information retrieval, information needs assessment, human-computer interfaces, consumer health informatics, telemedicine, etc.
Stanford University	Professional MS, Academic MS, PHD, Graduate Certificate	School of Medicine -Stanford Medical Informatics	Academic MS: 45 credit hours, masters thesis; Professional MS: 45 credit hours; PHD: 135 credit hours, qualifying oral examination, PHD thesis and dissertation; Certificate: completion of 3 core courses (grade B or better)
State University of New York	MS in Medical Informatics	Suny Downstate medical center	39 credit hours- Master's essay included	electronic medical records, coding and nomenclature
The State University of New York - University at Buffalo	Advanced Studies Certificate in Medical/Health Informatics	School of Informatics	20 credit hours
The University of Utah	MS; PHD	Biomedical Informatics	MS - 30 credit hours, masters thesis; PHD - 54 credit hours: 40 credit formal class work, 14 credits research, passing a PHD written and oral Qualifying registration
University of California Los Angeles	MS in Medical Imaging Informatics; PHD in Biomedical Enginnering through Medical Imaging Informatics	Biomedical Informatics Center	MS degree: 40 course units, B or better grade required; Masters thesis; PHD degree: completion of the major core + 2 minor fields of specialization	Telemedicine infrastructure, distributed medical information systems, natural language processing (NLP) of medical documents, automated image structuring and anatomical atlases, context-sensitive medical data visualization, and development of disease signature models.
University of California- San Franciso	MS and PHD in Biological and Medical Informatics		36 credits for MS; no fixed credit requirement for PHD
University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey	MS in Biomedical Informatics; PHD in Biomedical Informatics	School of Health Related Professions	MS: 36 credit hours, at least 30 hours formal course work, includes a completed masters' thesis; PHD: 61 credits beyond MS degree in Biomedical Informatics or 85 credits for students who don't have MS in Biomedical Informatics studies
University of Pittsburg	Certificate, MS, PHD	Center for Biomedical informatics	Certificate - 15 credit hours; MS - 36 credit hours, minimum B grade in all graduate courses;	A project is investigating Bayesian methods to analyze mass spectrometry-based proteomic data for application to clinical diagnosis and prognosis.
University of Washington	Certificate; MS; PHD in Biomedical and Health Informatics	Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics	MS - 60 credit hours min., cumulative GPA of 3.0 min.; PHD - 90 credit hours min, cumulative GPA of 3.0 min, exams
University of Wisconsin	PHD	Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics	61-67 credit hours beyond BA
Vanderbilt University	MS, PHD, MD/MD; MD/PhD	Department of Biomedical Informatics	MS - 27-40 credit hours, thesis ; PHD - 72 credit hours
Yale	Postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics	School of Medicine - Center for Medical Informatics		Trial/DB: A Web-accessible, Multi-disciplinary Database for Clinical Research; Clinical Applications of Mobile Computing Technologies; Clinical Decision Support Systems and Computer-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

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