Certificate in Clinical Bioinformatics
The rapidly evolving health care industry is in high demand for clinical bioinformatic practitioners. To meet this demand, we created the certificate program in Clinical Bioinformatics for junior faculty.
Certificate Overview
- A total of 9 credit hours are required to earn the Certificate in one year.
- The program is organized to meet one time per week and run throughout the year.
Learning Outcomes
After completing the certificate program participants will be prepared to do the following:
Apply clinical bioinformatics theories, methods and tools related to personal health, health care, public health, and biomedical research (for example)
- Work with and evaluate electronic health records
- Work with and evaluate national health databases
- Work with and evaluate omics repositories
- Integrate clinical and omics data
Describe analytic tools associated with systems/bioinformatic approaches, including (for example):
- Transcriptomics – microarray analysis deep sequencing
- Proteomic mass spectroscopic methods (identification and abundance)
Apply Intelligent Data Analysis Techniques including (for example):
- Dimension reduction techniques
- Heuristic search techniques
- Intelligent interfacing techniques
Describe application of bioinformatic methods to clinical problems, by demonstrating understanding of:
- Biomarker discovery and validation
- Major diseases such as cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular, and autoimmunity
Required Courses
FALL SEMESTER
BIPG6300 Clinical Proteomics 2 credit hours
BIPG0000 Case Studies in omics Medicine 1 credit hour
SPRING SEMESTER
BRIM6200 Biomarker Discovery Validation & Implementation 3 credit hours
SUMMER SEMESTER
BIPG 5120 Clinical Bioinformatics 3 credit hours
Additional (Optional) Activities:
-Attend grand rounds for Bioinformatics speakers
-Bioinformatics Boot Camp (a remote experience run by the CDRL )
-Monthly Bioinformatics journal club
-Participate in regional bioinformatics meeting (ie present abstract)
-Participate/develop a bioinformatics workshop related to topic of interest