During the past four years, the Carver College of Medicine (CCOM) and Office of Strategic Investments has sponsored training programs for developing informatics skills among early career faculty, residents, fellows, and selected staff, through coursework known as the AMIA 10x10 program.
The CCOM aims to build an Informatics community to develop a cadre of faculty, residents, fellows, and staff practicing at University of Iowa Health Care (UIHC) with Informatics skills to improve their clinical practice and advance scientific scholarship in this field.
The AMIA 10x10 Course
The course provides a detailed overview of biomedical and health informatics to those who will work at the interface of healthcare and information technology (IT). It also provides a broad understanding of the field from the vantage point of those who implement, lead, and develop IT solutions for improving health, healthcare, public health, and biomedical research.
An overview of the AMIA 10x10 program, course descriptions, FAQs, and a brief video with William Hersh, MD is available here. Dr. Hersh was principal in creating the program with the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in 2005, with the aim to educate 10,000 health care professionals and others in biomedical informatics by 2010 ("ten by ten").
Interested in completing this coursework?
The CCOM Office of Research is funding a limited number of faculty, residents, and fellows to complete this coursework. An application form is available online. In addition to completing the online coursework, participants are expected to write and present a final paper which may be considered for publication or presentation.
The CCOM Biomedical and Health Informatics Community
We have established a community of CCOM Informaticists who are applying these skills in their work at UIHC and collaborative research on campus. You are invited to join us with presentations, journal clubs, and other activities.