Core informatics competencies for clinical and translational scientists: what do our customers and collaborators need to know?
Since the inception of the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) program in 2006, leaders in education across CTSA sites have been developing and updating core competencies for Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) trainees. By 2009, 14 competency domains, including biomedical informatics, had been identified and published. Since that time, the evolution of the CTSA program, changes in the practice of CTS, the rapid adoption of electronic health records (EHRs), the growth of biomedical informatics, the explosion of big data, and the realization that some of the competencies had proven to be difficult to apply in practice have made it clear that the competencies should be updated. This paper describes the process undertaken and puts forth a new set of competencies that has been recently endorsed by the Clinical Research Informatics Workgroup of AMIA. In addition to providing context and background for the current version of the competencies, we hope this will serve as a model for revision of competencies over time.
Department of Biomedical and Health Information Sciences, College of Applied Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Annette L
AL
Valenta
Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Emma A
EA
Meagher
School of Medical and Public Health Office of the Dean, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
Umberto
U
Tachinardi
Division of Health and Biomedical Informatics, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA Justin.Starren@northwestern.edu.
Justin
J
Starren
D002568:Certification; D003479:Curriculum; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000592:standards*; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence; D012955:Societies, Medical; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States
education; graduate; informatics; professional competence; translational medical research