Faculty interests and activites include:
- physician performance assessment
- evidence based medicine
- physician/patient communication skills
- systems for clinical decision support
- case based instruction
- knowledge representation, retrieval and analysis
- health professions diversity
- public health informatics
- health workforce projections
- teaching and program evaluation
- competencies for primary care
Welcome to MEBI
The Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics provides training, research, and service in education and informatics across the breadth of health sciences and health care. Here is a brief description of Departmental activities:
MEBI DIVISIONS AND PROGRAMS
Medical Education & Evaluation
Provides training, research and service in several educational areas central to medical education including faculty and course evaluation, construction and scoring of tests, curriculum development, implementation of innovative educational methodologies such as standardized patients and web-based simulated patients, faculty development and research consultation.
The division offers courses in general medical education and is the home of the Teaching Scholars Program, a year-long educational curriculum dedicated to preparing faculty for positions of academic leadership.
MEDEX Physician Assistant Training Program
Provides a broad, competency-based curriculum focusing on primary care with an emphasis on underserved populations and encouraging life-long learning to meet changing health care needs.
Center for Medical Education Research (CMER)
Conducts policy-oriented research on medical education with a focus on primary care education, training of medical education researchers and translation of research into practical improvements in medical education.
Biomedical and Health Informatics (DBHI)
A nationally renowned program in biomedical and health informatics that stresses the importance of teaching, research, and service.
Graduate Program in Biomedical and Health Informatics
Offers a full-time Master's program, Ph.D. program, Postdoctoral fellowships and Summer Undergraduate Research Program that prepares students for careers in research, teaching and information management in academia and within health care organizations and the health care computing industry.
Patient Simulations: Online patient cases!
Cordially,
Fred Wolf, PhD
Chair, Department of Medical Education and Biomedical Informatics
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