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Training at DSG

The DSG offers funded and non-funded training positions for highly qualified individuals with background in biomedicine and health-related professions, computer science, statistics, and mathematics. Faculty from DSG teach at Harvard and MIT and also serve as research advisors to graduate and undergraduate students, as well as post-docs.

Goals

(1) Enable individuals with different backgrounds to acquire a level of knowledge and skills in competency areas necessary for pursuing careers in medical informatics in academia or industry

• Biomedicine or public health
• Computer science
• Probability, statistics, and decision science

(2) Provide a common core curriculum together with a set of experiences shared by all informatics specialization tracks
(3) Facilitate specialized informatics training in particular tracks

• Clinical informatics
• Bioinformatics
• Public health informatics
• Medical imaging

Core curriculum

Consists of two 12-credit courses (HST950 and HST951), and one 1-credit seminar (HST957) that needs to be taken at least twice.

• HST950/6.872 – Biomedical Computing. An introduction to bio-, clinical-, and public health informatics. Essentials of data structures, algorithms, principles of programming, knowledge representation, and database design.
  
• HST951/6.873 – Biomedical Decision Support. Essentials of data modeling, data analysis, security and privacy technology, artificial intelligence in medicine.
  
• HST 957 – Biomedical Informatics Research Seminar. Hot topics in biomedical informatics, presentation skills

Master’s program curriculum

The master’s program in BMI requires 42 Honors level graduate “H” units, 24 Graduate “G” units, and 24 thesis “T” units. H units exceeding 42 can be applied to G units. A typical course sequence for a trainee who is enrolled in our master’s program is:

Post-doctoral funding is available from training grants and research assistanships. The training grant, funded by the National Library of Medicine, is limited to USA citizens and green-card holders. Candidates who are not eligible for the training grant can send inquiries to rlacson 'at' partners.org. Others should apply at the Boston Informatics Training Program site.