One of the NCBO's goals is to facilitate and encourage the training of future researchers to use biomedical ontologies and related tools in the hope of enhancing scientific discovery. The Center undertakes an ambitious education training program by producing educational videos and other materials, and those looking for a basic introduction to biomedical ontology should check out our education section.

For those interested in more formal training, these programs are a sample of those available across the country for students interested in formal biomedical informatics training.

Stanford University's Biomedical Informatics Training Program

url: http://bmi.stanford.edu/

US News & World Report recently ranked Stanford as #1 for graduate training in biological sciences. Stanford's Computer Science graduate department was ranked #1. In addition to excellent ratings in individual departments, Stanford was ranked #2 (tied with MIT) in "Genetics/Genomics/Bioinformatics."

Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics Program

url: http://southafrica.stanford.edu/

The Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Training Program expands teaching, training, and research opportunities for individuals interested in the application of informatics technologies to problems in biomedical research. The program is a partnership between the University of the Western Cape, the University of Cape Town, the National Institute of Communicable Diseases, and Stanford University.

NLM's University-based Biomedical Informatics Research Training Programs

url: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html

The National Library of Medicine supports research training in biomedical informatics at 18 educational institutions in the United States. These programs offer graduate education and postdoctoral research experiences in a wide range of areas including: health care informatics, bioinformatics and computational biology, clinical research translational informatics, and public health informatics. Many programs also offer additional tracks in areas such as imaging, dental, and library informatics.

New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences Training Program

url: http://www.bioinformatics.buffalo.edu/education_undergrad.php

An academic resource to educate scientists, engineers and researchers in critical science and technology areas pertaining to bioinformatics and life sciences. The University at Buffalo, in tandem with expertise from the other CoE research partners at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, has established new bachelors and masters degree programs to support the CoE's educational mission.

Boston-area Biomedical Informatics Research Training Program

url: http://www.mi-boston.org/Boston-Informatics/index.html

A consortium of leading biomedical informatics laboratories at Harvard, MIT, Boston University, and Tufts-New England Medical Center. BIRT faculty and researchers comprise a vibrant academic community of individuals with diverse backgrounds and broad-ranging interests, providing trainees with opportunities for interaction and collaboration in biomedical informatics research.

UC Irvine Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics Biomedical Informatics Training Program

url: http://www.igb.uci.edu/education/education.html

The Biomedical Informatics training (BIT) Program includes both pre- and post-doctoral interdisciplinary educational curricula. The program, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, coordinates with existing graduate degree programs in the Schools of Information and Computer Sciences, Biological Sciences/Medicine, Physical Sciences, and Engineering.

University of Pittsburgh Biomedical Informatics Training Program

url: http://www.dbmi.pitt.edu/index.cfm

Has degree programs and non-degree programs available in areas of concentration including Clinical Informatics, Bioinformatics, Dental Informatics, Health Services Research, Biosurveillance/Infectious Disease Informatics, and Artificial Intelligence.

Columbia University Biomedical Informatics Education and Training

url: http://www.dbmi.columbia.edu/publichealth/docs/et.html

Offers MS, PhD and Postdoctoral study programs.

Yale Center for Medical Informatics

url: http://ycmi.med.yale.edu/

The Center serves as a focal point for training in biomedical informatics with a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the affiliated Informatics Fellowship Program at the West Haven VA. In addition, we participate actively in Yale's interdepartmental PhD program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. 

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