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Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 6:457-465 (1999)
© 1999 American Medical Informatics Association

Careers in Medical Informatics

Medical Informatics Education

The University of Utah Experience

Gregory A. Patton, MD, MS. and Reed M. Gardner, PhD

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Reed M. Gardner, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics, AB193 School of Medicine, University of Utah, 50 North Medical Drive, Salt Lake City, UT 84132. e-mail: <reed.gardner{at}hsc.utah.edu >.

The University of Utah has been educating health professionals in medical informatics since 1964. Over the 35 years since the program's inception, 272 graduate students have studied in the department. Most students have been male (80 percent) and have come from the United States (75 percent). Students entering the program have had diverse educational backgrounds, most commonly in medicine, engineering, computer science, or biology (59 percent of all informatics students). A total of 209 graduate degrees have been awarded, with an overall graduation rate of 87 percent since the program's start. Alumni are located in the United States (91 percent) and abroad (9 percent); half (51 percent) have remained in Utah. Former students are employed in a wide variety of jobs, primarily concerned with the application of medical informatics in sizable health care delivery organizations. Trends toward increasing managerial responsibility for medical informatics graduates and the emergence of the chief information officer role are noted.




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