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Boston-area Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program

Goals

(1) enable individuals with different backgrounds to acquire a level of knowledge and skills in competency areas necessary for BMI

· Biomedicine or public health

· Computer science

· Probability, statistics, and decision science

(2) provide a common core curriculum together with a set of experiences shared by all tracks

(3) facilitate specialized training for particular career paths and focus areas

· Clinical informatics

· Bioinformatics

· Public health informatics

· Medical imaging

Core curriculum

Consists of two 12-credit courses (HST950 and HST951), and one 1-credit seminar (HST957) that needs to be taken at least twice.

HST 950/6.872 – Biomedical Computing

· Intro to bio-, clinical-, and public health informatics. Essentials of data structures, algorithms, principles of programming, knowledge representation, and database design.

HST 951/6.873 – Biomedical Decision Support

· Data modeling, data analysis, security and privacy technology, artificial intelligence in medicine.

HST 957: Biomedical Informatics Research Seminar

· Hot topics in biomedical informatics, presentation skills

Master’s program curriculum

The master’s program in BMI requires 42 Honors level graduate “H” units, 24 Graduate “G” units, and 24 thesis “T” units. H units exceeding 42 can be applied to G units. A typical course sequence for a BMI fellow who is enrolled in our master’s program is:

Year 1

Fall (12 H, 1 G)

• An introductory course in computing or statistics (no units)

• HST 950 (Biomedical Computing, 12 H)

• HST 957 (BMI seminar, 1 G)

Spring (24 H, 1 G)

• HST 947 (Medical Artificial Intelligence, 12 H)

• Elective 1 (12 H)

• HST 957 (BMI seminar, 1G)

Year 2

Fall (12 H, 4 G, 12 T)

• HST 951 (Biomedical Decision Support, 12 H)

• Elective 2 (4 G)

• HST THG (12 T)

Spring (12 G, 12 T)

• HST 959 (Research Topics in Biomedical Informatics, 12 G)

• HST THG (12 T)