Hi All,
- do you have some course on your campus that already covers this content? if yes, what is it? if not, any reason why?
REPLY: No. As a biomedical informatics department, we teach most of the various parts of this but not in the coherent manner described.
- would you or a colleague on your campus have interest in leading such a course within your university?
REPLY: Absolutely. We are in the School of Medicine and attract a number of computationally minded students who want to apply their skills to clinical research problems. Colleagues and students in public health, pharmacy, and various medicine departments who would find this course of interest.
- do you have a omop cdm instance and associated computing infrastructure (database server and analysis server) which could be made accessible to students for coursework with the appropriate legwork? if yes, what’s your data?
REPLY: Yes. We have a relatively large amount of hospital data and a relatively small amount of nursing home data in CDM.
- how willing would your institution be in collaborating in a cross-institutional educational opportunity like this?
REPLY: I don’t the institution as a whole (e.g., at the higher levels) would be particularly excited about collaboration unless there was funding. The U depends on soft money and indirects. Education is valued but not generally given priority. In our department, some excitement would come from the Center for Clinical Research and from various other departments. There would be some barriers to collaboration but none that should be insurmountable b.c. we already are involved in multiple research networks.
- on a scale from 1-10, how excited are you by this idea
REPLY: 8 - 9 : very excited, and it is good timing to consider this b/c we are redesigning our curriculum, the main limitation that I am spread thin.
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