AMIA Board white paper: Definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 931-938

  Kulikowski, Casimir A ^a   Shortliffe, Edward H ^b   Currie, Leanne M ^c   Elkin, Peter L ^d   Hunter, Lawrence E ^e   Johnson, Todd R ^f   Kalet, Ira J ^g   Lenert, Leslie A ^h   Musen, Mark A ⁱ   Ozbolt, Judy G ^j   Smith, Jack W ^k   Tarczy Hornoch, Peter Z ^g   Williamson, Jeffrey J ^l  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^l American Medical Informatics Association   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS; BIOMEDICINE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT; DISCIPLINES RELATING TO BIOMEDICINE; GRADUATE STUDENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MOTIVATION; POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84867665183     PISSN: 10675027     EISSN: 1527974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2012-001053     Document Type: Article

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