The program is very open to medical novices, especially CIS graduates. We have a program of core courses which is very interdisciplinary, a research project in numerous areas including artificial intelligence and expert systems in medicine, and the opportunity to work for a degree which is tailored to the individual. Dr. Alan Hahn, AVCS member, is the veterinary representative. See also Groupware. Medical informatics is the application of computers to health care, and includes knowledge representation, acquisition, storage, retrieval, and manipulation to support medical reasoning, decision-making, and learning.
Fellowships are for periods of two to six months.
Applicants should submit a transcript of their college work, a two-page typed statement indicating their past achievements and future interest in medicine or veterinary medicine, computer, health science, library, mathematics, statistics, and education areas and two letters of recommendation. We particularly invite women and minority applicants. Medical informatics is the application of computers to health care. Medical informatics goes beyond the use of the computer as a computational tool and extends into the process of knowledge representation, acquisition, storage, retrieval, and manipulation largely to support reasoning, decision-making, and learning. Most successful candidates will emphasize such course work as artificial intelligence, expert systems, database management systems, computer networks, and medical subject analysis in addition to a research project.