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UB adds advanced certification in medical/health informatics
By PATRICIA DONOVAN
Contributing Editor
The School of Informatics this fall will begin a new post-graduate program that will award an advanced certificate in medical/health informatics.
The 20 credit-hour program is aimed at UB students and medical professionals in the community. It will offer an intensive introduction to the evolving field of medical and health-related informatics, a field that uses technology tools and organizing principles from the fields of communication and library studies in the organization and provision of health care.
Peter Winkelstein, associate professor of clinical pediatrics in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, developed the program with Gary D. Byrd, director of the university's Health Sciences Library. Both are adjunct professors in the School of Informatics.
Winkelstein says the new program "is designed for students who have completed graduate or undergraduate training in a field linked to informatics, and for professionals who have completed or are completing medical or other health-care training.
"Students who complete this program," he says, "will be prepared to work in information-related positions in health care, health sciences research or education, and will have the ability to evaluate, manage and develop a wide range of informatics projects."
The required 20 credit hours of course work will include six credits worth of electives. Faculty will be drawn from a number of schools and academic departments, including the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Department of Philosophy in the College of Arts and Sciences.
For more information, contact Annette Burdett at 645-2141, ext. 1186, or aburdett@buffalo.edu. Application requirements are posted at http://informatics.buffalo.edu/admissions/adv/advinfomed.asp
Besides this certification program, the School of Informatics offers a bachelor's degree in communication; master's degrees in informatics, communication and library science; a doctorate in communication with the option of doctoral study in information and library science; an advanced studies certificate in library science; a duel JD/MLS degree; a certificate in public relations and advertising. and a program in music librarianship.