Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians: Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors

Ronen Tal-Botzer; Rachel S. Levy-Drummer; Gidi Rechavi; Ron Unger

Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians: Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors

Ronen Tal-Botzer, Rachel S. Levy-Drummer, Gidi Rechavi, Ron Unger

The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences

Bar-Ilan University

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Abstract

Recent revolutions in bioinformatics, web and smartphone apps, and the initiative to significantly increase the implementation of electronic medical records, highlighted the need of physicians to be familiar with the newly emerging field of Biomedical Informatics. The huge potential of the field motivated us to educate a cadre of physicians with the required informatics skills, and consequently, improve the quality of medical care in Israel. Here we describe the curriculum of our certification study program in Biomedical Informatics for physicians, comprised of the following courses: Advanced Molecular Methods for Clinical Applications, Clinical Bioinformatics, Biomathematical Modelling, Biostatistics and the Design of Clinical Trials, Clinical Systems Biology and Medical Data Mining. We discuss the rationale of the program; explain our considerations in designing the curriculum; describe the content of each course; highlight the Medical Data Mining course which was specifically designed for this program; and discuss the feedback from the students. More information is available at the website of the program: www.bio-medical.info.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms
Pages	371-377
Number of pages	7
State	Published - 2012
Event	International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal Duration: 1 Feb 2012 → 4 Feb 2012

Publication series

Name	BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms

Conference

Conference	International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, BIOINFORMATICS 2012
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Vilamoura, Algarve
Period	1/02/12 → 4/02/12

Keywords

Bioinformatics
Biomedical informatics
Curriculum
Data mining
Medical education

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Modelling and Simulation

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Tal-Botzer, R., Levy-Drummer, R. S., Rechavi, G., & Unger, R. (2012). Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians: Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors. In BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (pp. 371-377). (BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms).

Tal-Botzer, Ronen ; Levy-Drummer, Rachel S. ; Rechavi, Gidi et al. / Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians : Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors. BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms. 2012. pp. 371-377 (BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms).

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Tal-Botzer, R, Levy-Drummer, RS, Rechavi, G & Unger, R 2012, Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians: Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors. in BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms. BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, pp. 371-377, International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms, BIOINFORMATICS 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 1/02/12.

Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians: Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors. / Tal-Botzer, Ronen; Levy-Drummer, Rachel S.; Rechavi, Gidi et al.
BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms. 2012. p. 371-377 (BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms).

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Tal-Botzer R, Levy-Drummer RS, Rechavi G, Unger R. Building today the future cadre of informatics-oriented physicians: Lessons from a new biomedical informatics curriculum for medical doctors. In BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms. 2012. p. 371-377. (BIOINFORMATICS 2012 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms).

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