A Unified Approach to Clinical Informatics Education for Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education
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This paper describes a single clinical informatics course that Vanderbilt University Medical Center built to teach both undergraduate and graduate medical learners, structured around four activities: didactic sessions, an "informatics history and physical" in which learners observe clinical workflows and propose an informatics solution, hands-on time alongside practicing clinical informaticians, and case-based group work, with objectives modeled on the clinical informatics fellowship curriculum. Twenty-three learners completed the course, and feedback suggested it met its planned goals. The authors present it as a feasible model other institutions could adopt to address gaps in clinical informatics training.
This is a plain-language summary written for discoverability; the authoritative version is the published paper. Part of Travis Osterman's peer-reviewed publications.