Biomedical Informatics

Information technology has become an indispensable tool for the effective practice of medicine. Ensuring patient safety and best outcomes, finding the best evidence, practicing cost-effective medicine, enabling systems-based care, and providing tailored decision-support for individual patients cannot be accomplished without sophisticated information technology.

Biomedical Informatics is a disciplinary field that fosters the development and implementation of complex technological interventions designed to improve medical care and patient outcomes.

Our four-year Biomedical Informatics thread provides an opportunity for students to master the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of the discipline. The major themes and topics of the thread are listed below, as well as their location within the curriculum and the curriculum phase: Fundamentals (FND), Major Clinical Year (MCY), or Differentiation and Integration (D&I).

Theme Topic Location in Curriculum Phase
Knowledge Representation Mapping Medical Concepts Molecular Mechanisms and Disease FND
Information Retrieval Information Needs Foundations of Clinical Medicine FND
Information Retrieval Information Resources Mechanisms and Practice MCY
Information Retrieval Searching Skill Assessment Ready 4 Residency D&I
Decision Analysis Decision Analysis Mechanisms and Practice MCY
Decision Analysis Sensitivity Analysis Ready 4 Residency D&I
Decision Analysis Conditional Probability Ready 4 Residency D&I
Clinical Applications Clinical Decision Support Ready 4 Residency D&I
Clinical Applications Safety and Quality Ready 4 Residency D&I
Clinical Applications Privacy and Security Ready 4 Residency D&I
Clinical Applications Usability Ready 4 Residency D&I