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Medical School, Medicine, and Health Informatics

Explore clinical informatics, informatic roles for physicians, medical school application tips, and resources for aspiring medical professionals. Learn about required GPA, MCAT, extracurriculars, and recommendation letters. Discover how to leverage your summer for medical school success.

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Medical School, Medicine, and Health Informatics

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  1. Medical School, Medicine, and Health Informatics Project ENABLE May 29, 2019

  2. How do Physicians Fit into Informatics? • Clinical Informatics • “Clinical Informatics is the application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services • Official sub-specialty as of 2011 • Other fields include: Bioinformatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Consumer Health Informatics, Public Health Informatics

  3. EHR Adoption Rate

  4. Medical School - Informatics Timeline

  5. Why are Clinical-Informatic Specialist Necessary? • Everyone speaks a totally different language! • Healthcare is challenging • Hugely complex environment • Intense regulatory environment • High-stakes • Need someone who can bridge the gap • Example: Recent challenges implementing predictive machine learning systems for inpatient complications

  6. Future of Health Informatics

  7. Possible Informatic Roles a Physician Could Take Chief Medical Information Officer Researcher Applied Informatician Industry: Consulting, Health Tech, Entrepreneurship And many more!

  8. Medical School

  9. What to expect

  10. When should you apply It depends! No right answer! Many different paths

  11. How to Get Into Medical School Medical School Application GPA and Test Scores Extracurriculars Recommendation Letters

  12. How to Get Into Medical School GPA and Test Scores General and Science GPA MCAT Score Other Considerations

  13. The MCAT • Medical College Admissions Test • 4 Sections, 7.5 hours total • Scored from 472 – 528 (Median 500)

  14. How to Get Into Medical School Extracurriculars Leadership, volunteering, clubs, jobs Research Clinical extracurriculars

  15. How to Get Into Medical School Recommendation Letters

  16. The Application Itself • Service called AMCAS • Long and arduous • No rush! • Average number of schools applied to: 16! • Timing: • Primary • Opens: May 2 (Can submit May 31st) • Processing can take as long as a month! • Secondaries • Pre-writing helpss

  17. HiDAV

  18. How this Summer Fits into Medical School Journey • Technical Skills • Internships • Research • Further study • Recommendations • Seeing a different facet of healthcare

  19. Summary Slide • Many ways clinicians can be involved in informatics • Field of Clinical Informatics is broad • Possible Careers: CMIO, Research, Applied Informatician, Industry • Many moving parts in a successful applications • Long process • Everyone’s journey is different • Presented model is not a checklist of requirements!

  20. Helpful Programs • Fee Assistance Program • Offered by the AAMC to assist in paying for MCAT and applying to medical school • Pipeline Programs • Example: MED Program at UNC • “The Medical Education Development (MED) Program is an intensive educational experience and challenging opportunity to gain insight into the realities of attending medical or dental school.”

  21. Further Resources http://informaticsprofessor.blogspot.com/ - Bill Hersch blog, great clinical informatics information https://students-residents.aamc.org/ - Association of American Medical Colleges website, lots of information for applicants https://www.amia.org/ - American Medical Informatics Association website And numerous books, online articles, and other resources!

  22. Contact Info • Email: eric_cui@med.unc.edu • Feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns!

  23. Any Questions?

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