Boston-Area Research Training Program in Biomedical Informatics

波士顿地区生物医学信息学研究培训计划

• 批准号: 7658168
• 负责人: Alexa T. McCray
• 金额: $ 189.57万
• 依托单位: HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7658168
• 关键词: Address; Area; Bioinformatics; Boston; Clinical; Collaborations; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Faculty; Figs - dietary; Goals; Health Sciences; Health system; Healthcare; Home environment; Hospitals; Individual; Informatics; Institutes; Interdisciplinary Study; Joints; Knowledge; Mentors; Methodology; Mission; Monitor; Phase; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Public Health Informatics; Records; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Training; Science; Students; Technology; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Undifferentiated; biomedical informatics; career; career development; experience; improved; interest; medical schools; multidisciplinary; pre-doctoral; programs; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The centrality of informatics in all aspects of biomedical science and in health care practice highlights the need for well-trained individuals capable of carrying out and leading multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research in this discipline. This proposal is aimed at continuing and improving upon a Boston-area Biomedical Informatics Research Training (BIRT) program, which has this mission. BIRT brings together in a coordinated program a wide variety of activities already under way at MIT, Harvard, affiliated institutes and area hospitals. Training will focus on three main areas: (1) bioinformatics, (2) clinical/health systems informatics, and (3) public health informatics. Because of complementary predoctoral training support for area (1), BIRT will not duplicate that, but will support training in this area for originally undifferentiated predoctoral students discovering interest in bioinformatics, for transition into the other training program, and for postdoctoral fellows. Besides addressing in-depth needs of each focus area, the goal for BIRT is to provide an integrated and comprehensive approach to addressing common methodologies, infrastructure challenges, and cross-cutting problems, and to develop critical mass and synergies, to enhance mentoring and career development of trainees. The administrative and academic home of the BIRT program is the joint Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. A new Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics will seek to imbue a culture of collaboration and interaction for research and training, through a variety of initiatives. We are requesting support in the BIRT program for 5 predoctoral students and 19 postdoctoral fellows per year, almost all of whom will be in research MS or PhD programs. The wide variety of courses at Harvard and MIT, multiple productive research centers, and strong mentoring records of a distinguished faculty give both depth and breadth to this venue for training. New courses will be developed over the next several years, and the areas of concentration further delineated and strengthened. Continued monitoring of our trainees and graduates will be carried out to aid in program assessment and improvement:

描述（由申请人提供）： 信息学在生物医学科学和医疗保健实践中的各个方面的中心地位强调了能够在该学科中进行和领导多学科和跨学科研究的训练有素的人的需求。该建议旨在继续对具有此任务的波士顿地区生物医学信息学研究培训（BIRT）计划进行改进。 Birt汇集了一项协调的计划，在麻省理工学院，哈佛大学，附属机构和地区医院已经进行了各种活动。培训将重点放在三个主要领域：（1）生物信息学，（2）临床/卫生系统信息学和（3）公共卫生信息学。由于对区域（1）地区的互补培训支持，Birt不会重复这一点，但会支持该领域的培训，以培训最初未分化的占主导地位的学生，发现对生物信息学的兴趣，过渡到其他培训计划，并为博士后家伙过渡。除了满足每个焦点区域的深入需求外，BIRT的目标是提供一种综合而全面的方法来解决共同的方法论，基础设施挑战，跨切换问题，并发展临界质量和协同作用，以增强受训者的指导和职业发展。 BIRT计划的行政和学术住所是哈佛大学卫生科学与技术的联合部门。一个新的哈佛医学院生物医学信息学中心将寻求通过各种计划，以进行研究和培训的协作和互动文化。我们要求在BIRT计划中为5名前学生和19名博士后研究员提供支持，几乎所有这些人都将参加研究MS或博士学位课程。宽 哈佛大学和麻省理工学院的各种课程，多个生产研究中心以及杰出教师的强大指导记录为该场所提供了深度和广度。新课程将在未来几年内开发，集中注意力的领域进一步划定和加强。继续对学员和毕业生进行监测以帮助计划评估和改进：