Biomedical Informatics

The MD-PhD required curriculum for the PhD consists of 72 credit hours from required and elective courses, drawn from these lists.

Prerequisites from the first two years of medical education curriculum

IMC 502 Fundamentals I 4.0 cr
IMC 504 Fundamentals II 4.0 cr
IMC 500 Medicine and Society 2.0 cr
IDM 520 CPM1 4.0 cr
IDM 620 CPM2 4.0 cr
IMC 606/610 Neuroscience and Behavior 6.0 cr
    24 cr

Biomedical Informatics requirements

BMI 501

Survey of Biomedical Informatics

3.0 credits

BMI 503

Systems, Databases & Other Software Development Methods

3.0 credits

BMI 504

Statistical Data Analysis & Research Methods

3.0 credits

BMI 710

Faculty mentored research rotations

6.0 credits

BMI 711

BMI Dissertation Research

>3.0 credits

BMI 712

BMI Dissertation Writing and Defense Preparation

>6.0 credits

MST 601

MD-PhD Seminar

4.0 credits

 

 

>28 credits

Suggested electives depending on dissertation topic: 8 credits minimum, at least 2 700-level didactic courses

BMI 505

Bioinformatics and Translational Informatics

3.0 cr

BMI 506

Clinical Population and Public Health Informatics

3.0 cr

BMI 507

Clinical Informatics and Decision Support

3.0 cr

BMI 508

Biomedical Ontology

3.0 cr

BMI 701

Advanced Study Design & Data Analysis in Biomedical Informatics

3.0 cr

BMI 702

Advanced Statistical Analysis in Biomedical Informatics

3.0 cr

BMI 703

Advanced Data Mining and Natural Language Processing in BMI

3.0 cr

BMI 704

Advanced Evaluation and Cost Analysis Methods in BMI

3.0 cr

BMI 705

Advanced Topics in Clinical Informatics and Clinical Decision Support

3.0 cr

BMI 706

Advanced Topics in Clinical Pop. Research & Public Health Informatics

3.0 cr

BMI 707

Advanced Topics in Bioinformatics & Translational Research Informatics

3.0 cr

BMI 708

Advanced Topics in Biomedical Ontology

3.0 cr

BMI 714

Referent Tracking

3.0 cr