Medical Informatics - Continuing Education

There are numerous educational options in informatics. They range from in-person courses from the Medical Library Association and the week-long intensive Woods Hole BioMedical Informatics course to online courses through the American Medical Informatics Association’s 10X10 program. Below is a brief list of informatics classes, tutorials and distance learning opportunities.

Medical Library Association:

Informatics courses currently listed in the Medical Library Association Continuing Education Clearinghouse on Informatics are:

Bioinformatics Primer

Clinical Genomics: From Bench to Bedside

Incorporating Informatics into the Curriculum

Informatics and EHR: Envisioning the Future

Information Insecurities: How Secure is Secure Enough?

Making Sense of Protein Sequences

Woods Hole:
BioMedical Informatics Course Overview (Woods Hole)
These week-long survey courses are designed to familiarize individuals with the application of information science and computer technologies in health care, biomedical research, and health professions education. Through a combination of lectures and hands-on computer exercises, participants will be introduced to the conceptual and technical components of medical informatics.

AMIA 10 X 10 Program

The AMIA 10x10 uses curricular content from existing informatics training programs and other AMIA educational initiatives with a special emphasis toward programs with a proven track record in distance learning. The content will provide a framework but also cover plenty of detail, especially in areas such as electronic and personal health records, health information exchange, standards and terminology, and health care quality and error prevention.

Courses available from:

Oregon Health & Science University – Registration to open July 2009

Stanford University

University of Alabama at Birmingham – Registration to open June 2009

University of Cincinnati

University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Minnesota School of Nursing – Registration to open June 2009

NOVA Southeastern University

University of West Florida

A short course in informatics is available from the University of West Florida

Introduction to Medical Informatics

An overview of the interdisciplinary nature of Medical Informatics that should be of interest to physicians, nurses, health care administrators, medical librarians, IT techs and others. To meet your scheduling needs, this course is taught completely online, with an emphasis on the real world interaction between medicine and technology and not on theory. Every effort is made to provide practical and up-to-date examples of issues and interesting emerging technologies for the student.

NCBI Education

Online tutorials available on:

BLAST QuickStart: Example-Driven Web-Based BLAST Tutorial

PSI-Blast Tutorial

Identification of Disease Genes: Example-Driven Web-Based Tutorial

Opportunities for Training and Education Sponsored by the National Library of Medicine