Postdoctoral Training in Medical Informatics

David B. Aronow, Thomas H. Payne and S. Pierre Pincetl

Medical Decision Making, 1991, vol. 11, issue 1, 29-32

Abstract: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) funds training programs in medical informatics and plans to significantly increase the number of program sites in the future. The authors surveyed all NLM-funded trainees at the nine sites supported in the spring of 1988 to determine their backgrounds, current research interests, and career plans. Forty-three fellows were identified, of whom 39 returned a mailed questionnaire. All but four were physicians (89.7%), 82.1 % had at least one year of postdoctoral clinical training, and 61.5% had completed a residency. Seventy- one percent of those completing residency had done so in internal medicine. The most common areas of current research were decision support/decision analysis, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence. The overwhelming majority of the fellows planned to seek positions in a medical school on completion of their fellowships, and most preferred affiliation with a de partment of medical informatics or medicine. Key words: medical informatics; SCAMC; com puters ; National Library of Medicine. (Med Decis Making 1991;11:29-32)

Date: 1991
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