Seminar in Advanced Topics in Biomedical Informatics

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This course is designed to provide an in-depth look at several topics that are of essential or timely importance in biomedical informatics by examining historic and current peer-reviewed literature. Each topic will be allotted three to five consecutive weeks in the class schedule with the intention that each module becomes its own “mini- course”. The course activities will be organized into two segments. In the first section, we will focus on reviewing, presenting, and writing about primary literature. In the second section, we will also expand our writing to include developing new questions and approaches. For PhD students, they will ultimately prepare a short grant proposal using the NIH application format in the second half of the course. At the end of the semester, we will break the class into two “study sections” where students will review each other’s proposals.