Overview of the field of biomedical informatics,combining perspectives from medicine, computer science, and social science. Use of computers and information in health care and the biomedical sciences, covering specific applications and general methods, current issues, capabilities and limitations of biomedical informatics.
This course is customized for 1st-year PhD and MA students in the biomedical informatics graduate program and also
open to other interested students at Columbia. It provides a detailed overview of symbolic methods.
Prerequisite: open to public. Presentations by medical informatics faculty and invited international speakers in medical informatics, computer science, nursing informatics, library science, and related fields.
Research in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Research in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Prerequisite: instructors permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Prerequisite: instructors permission. Participation in medical informatics educational activities under the direction of a faculty adviser.
Prerequisite: completion of all M.Phil. requirements, and approval of a research proposal by the supervising faculty adviser.
Prerequisite: completion of all M.Phil. requirements. Ph.D. candidates may be required to register for this course every term during the preparation of the dissertation.