*** Fellowships Available for AY 1993 ***
HARVARD, MIT, and TUFTS/NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL CENTER COMBINED
RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS
We are seeking qualified applicants for the Harvard Medical School,
MIT, Tufts/New England Medical Center combined training program in
medical informatics, for July, 1993 or later.
A number of different training options are offered, including:
Formal doctoral degree training (for both predoctoral and postdoctoral
trainees) in:
o Medical Computer Science at MIT (under the direction of Prof. Peter
Szolovits), emphasizing medical knowledge representation, model
building, and clinical decision making
o Health Decision Science at Harvard School of Public Health (under
the direction of Prof. Milton Weinstein), emphasizing decision
analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, and outcome modeling
Research fellowship training (postdoctoral only):
o Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital (under the
direction of Robert A. Greenes, M.D., Ph.D.), emphasizing clinical
decision making, medical educational strategies, clinical
guidelines, clinical record keeping, medical knowledge
representation and query (UMLS), radiologic image management, and
object-oriented software architectures for network-based application
development
o Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital
(under the direction of G. Octo Barnett, M.D.), emphasizing clinical
decision making, medical student education, student/physician
workstation design, problem-based knowledge access, ambulatory
computer-based medical record systems, and implementation/evaluation
of guidelines
o Division of Clinical Decision Making, NEMC (under the direction of
Stephan G. Pauker, M.D.), emphasizing clinical decision making,
knowledge representation, and guidelines and outcome evaluation
o Other special opportunities are also available to qualified
candidates in radiology informatics.
Predoctoral fellowship applicants must concurrently apply for admission
to the MIT or Harvard degree program. Postdoctoral applicants will
usually have at least one year and preferably three years of residency
training prior to beginning of fellowship.
The combined training program offers a wide range of opportunities for
education, research, and collegial interaction among the training sites.
A large variety of course offerings at Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, many
seminars, journal clubs, and other opportuities for exchange of
information provide all trainees with opportunities to learn about the
variety of work occurring at the various laboratories and in the
affiliated institutions, as well as in the larger field of medical
informatics. A number of associated faculty participate in the
program through the research activities of each of the training sites.
In addition to the research programs of the participating laboratories,
we encourage the fellows to develop projects that may involve unique
collaborative relationships.
NLM-supported fellowships are available to U.S. permanent residents
only. For more information, contact the training program office:
Medical Informatics Training Program
ATTN: Robert A. Greenes, MD, PhD
Decision Systems Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 732-6281 FAX: (617) 732-6317
email: greenes at harvard.edu
or the individual training program component directors via email at:
Barnett: obarnett at hstbme.mit.edu
Greenes: greenes at harvard.edu
Pauker: sgp at cor.cdm.nemc.org
Szolovits: psz at mit.edu
Weinstein: mcw at biostat.harvard.edu
