Medical Informatics Programs in the United States Go Back

Date Compiled: June 2009

University	Degrees	Department(s)	Degree Requirements	Sampling of Research Interests
Arizona State University	MS and PhD in Biomedical Informatics	Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Engineering	MS: 30 credits including thesis , PhD: 39-45 credits required courses and 39-45 credits of elective courses	Health Information Technology Assessment for Clinical Outcomes, Distributed Cognition and Scientific Collaboration in Medicine and Health,
University of California Los Angeles	MS in Medical Imaging Informatics; PHD in Biomedical Enginnering through Medical Imaging Informatics	Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program	MS degree: 40 course units, B or better grade required; Masters thesis; PHD degree: completion of the major core + 2 minor fields of specialization	Novel methods for image acquisition, New methods for interacting with clinical data, including medical images, Higher-level abstractions and automated techniques for organizing medical data, Development of a probabilistic methodology for linking healthcare events into a single ¡§episode of care.¡¨
University of California- San Franciso	PhD in Clinical and Translational informatics (CTI)	Program in Biological and Medical Informatics.	no fixed credit requirement (individual plans), 3 required courses + informatics rotations, plus should have or achieve competencies in biostatistics, programming, clinical sciences and mathematics	Diagnostic workstation design/user interface issues, Clinical information system integration, XML databases for clinical information systems, decision support systems, automated clinical inference, Informatics techniques for healthcare delivery
Stanford University	Professional MS, Academic MS, PHD, Graduate Certificate	School of Medicine -Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research	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)	See: http://bmi.stanford.edu/research.htm
Yale	Postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics	School of Medicine - Center for Medical Informatics	not a degree program.  Training is project-based	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
Nova Southeastern University	MS in Medical Informatics	College of Ospeopathic Medicine	43 credit hours	n/a
University of West Florida	Medical Informatics Certificate	School of Allied Health and Life Sciences	4 credits	n/a
Northwestern University	MS in Medical Informatics	School of Continuing Studies	11-14 courses (depending on student's background)	n/a
Indiana University	Medical Informatics Fellowship	Medical Center and Regenstrief Institute	¡@	¡@
Harvard - MIT HST program	MS in Biomedical Informatics	MIT	66 units of graduate credit plus a Master's thesis	http://hst.mit.edu/servlet/ControllerServlet?handler=PublicHandler&action=browse&pageid=597
Grand Valley State University	MS Medical and Bioinformatics - nonthesis	Computing & Information Systems	36 credits with a cumulative GPA of 3.0	information not readily available
University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey	MS, PHD and Certificate in Biomedical Informatics	School of Health Related Professions	MS: 36 credit hours, PHD: 61 credits beyond MS degree in Biomedical Informatics or 85 credits for students who don't have MS in Biomedical Informatics, Certificate: 15 credit hours.	information not readily available
Columbia	MA and PHD in Clinical Informatics	Biomedical Informatics	MA: 30 credits, PhD: 60 credits	¡@
State University of New York	MS in Medical Informatics	SUNY Downstate Medical Center	39 credit hours- Master's essay included	n/a
Cleveland Clinic Foundation	Medical Informatics Fellowship	n/a	completion of 1-2 year fellowship and research thesis in area of interest	information not readily available
Oregon Health and Science University	MSBI, MBI (Master of Biomedical Informatics), PhD in BI, Graduate Certificate	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.
University of Pittsburgh	MS, PHD in Biomedical Informatics	Department of Biomedical informatics	MS - 36 credit hours, minimum B grade in all graduate courses; PhD - 72 credits (54 - coursework, 18 - dissertation research)	Evaluation of an Intelligent Tutoring System in Pathology: Effects of External Representation on Performance Gains, Metacognition, and Acceptance; Unsupervised clustering of over-the-counter healthcare products into product categories, The development of common data elements for a multi-institute prostate cancer tissue bank:
Vanderbilt University	MS, PHD, MD/MS; MD/PhD	Department of Biomedical Informatics	MS - 22-34 credit hours, thesis ; PHD - 72 credit hours	see: http://dbmi.mc.vanderbilt.edu/research/
The University of Utah	MS, PhD, Certificates in Biomedical Informatics	Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine	MS - 30 creidt hours: 23 formal class work, 7 hours of research for thesis; PHD - 54 credit hours: 40 credit formal class work, 14 credits research, passing a PHD written and oral Qualifying registration; Certificate - 15 credit hours	Web-based care coordination integrating medicine and psychiatry, Data mining exploration of the heritable comnponent to disease-, health-, and medication response-related traits, Building the trEDW (translational research Enterprise Data Warehouse) and associated tools.
University of Washington	Certificate, MS, PHD, post-graduate fellowships in Biomedical and Health Informatics	Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics (under SOM)	MS: 60 credit hours, including at least nine Thesis credits, cumulative GPA of 3.0 minimum, complete an MS thesis and pass a final exam; PHD: 90 credit hours, including 27 Dissertation credits, formal examinations: qualifying exam, general exam, final exam	Community Health Assessment Key Indicators, Personal Health Information Management for Breast Cancer Patients, Predicting Drug-Drug Interactions Using Drug Mechanism Knowledge
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee	PHD	College of Engineering & Applied Science, Medical College of Wisconsin (plus other participating departements)	61-67 credit hours beyond BA	Computational Models for Vaccine Design, Content Based Retrieval of Medical Images, Collaborative Intelligent Health Information Systems Initiative, Investigating and Annotating Discourse Connectivity in Biomedical Text
Milwakee School of Engineering/Medical College of Wisconsin	MS in Medical Informatics	School of Business at MSOE/Grad School of Biomedical Sciences at MCW	54 quarter credits (42 - required courses, 6 - elecives, 6 - project)	n/a

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