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. Some candidates may pursue a Master's degree in library science with a health science emphasis. Still other candidates may wish to combine their backgrounds in educational psychology, biological science, or biostatistics with health science applications. Fellowships would be for two to three years, and fellows would obtain a PhD degree preparatory for an academic career in medical informatics, or a Master's degree in Library and Information Science.