WP 3: TRAINING AND MOBILITY Eva Molero IMIM

1. WP 3: TRAINING AND MOBILITY Eva Molero IMIM

2. TRAINING ACTION PLAN - - Analysis of Analysis of ACMI ACMI paper paper Course Database creation Course Database creation - - TMC / TMC / Consortium discussion Consortium discussion Y Y - - SAB SAB input input Training Training topic thesaurus topic thesaurus E E A A Integrative Integrative BMI BMI curriculum curriculum R R “ “ integrated integrated ” ” situation situation “ “ current current ” ” situation situation 1 1 Bologna criteria and Bologna criteria and Y Y GAP IDENTIFICATION GAP IDENTIFICATION E E A A Course Database exploitation Course Database exploitation R R SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO ADDRESS GAPS SPECIFIC PROPOSALS TO ADDRESS GAPS 2 2 1st Training 1st Training Challenge Challenge ORGANISATIONS OF NEW ORGANISATIONS OF NEW BMI training BMI training TRAINING ACTIVITIES TRAINING ACTIVITIES Y Y E E A A 2nd Training 2nd Training Challenge Challenge R R eHealth Summer Biomedical Informatics 3rd Training 3rd Training Challenge Challenge 3 3 Summer School (1st Edition) School SoA report converted Y Y into E E Biomedical Informatics educational A A Summer School (2nd Edition) R R material 4

3. MOBILITY ACTION PLAN ANALYSIS OF THE MOBILITY NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS Y Y MOBILITY MOBILITY ( ( Online Survey Online Survey ) ) E E BROKERAGE BROKERAGE A A SERVICE (MBS) SERVICE (MBS) R R initial definition initial definition 1 1 MOBILITY FUNDING MECHANISM Inter Inter (MFM) (MFM) Set Set up up - - MBS MBS technical and technical and functional specifications functional specifications Y Y MFM MFM implementation implementation E E (intra (intra - - Consortium Consortium ) ) A A MBS MBS implementation implementation R R partner meetings related to partner meetings related to 2 2 1st Training 1st Training Challenge Challenge MFM MFM Evaluation Evaluation mobility programme mobility programme MBS MBS maintenance maintenance and updates Y Y JPA E E 2nd Training 2nd Training Challenge Challenge JPA A A mobility programme mobility programme R R MFM MFM implementation implementation ) ( open to BMI 3 3 community (open to BMI 3rd Training 3rd Training Challenge Challenge mobility programme mobility programme Community) Y Y E E A A R R 4

4. WORKPACKAGE OBJECTIVES - Building a solid and durable BMI community - Educate current / future BMI professionals (Training) - Facilitate complementarity among scientists and organizations (Mobility) Considerations for an integrated BMI curriculum • Integration of computational sciences and applications domains. • Diversity among trainees. • Direct immersion in research and development activities. • Training efforts in BMI addressed to: • Attract people as early in their academic careers as possible. • Design collaborative efforts for medical doctors, medical informaticians, biologists and bioinformaticians.

5. INFOBIOMED TRAINING CHALLENGE OBJECTIVE: to promote the exchange of views and dialogue between disciplines in the context of a specific research problem. GOALS FOR PARTICIPANTS: a) To participate in a multidisciplinary research-based training environment. b) To learn the difficulties of crossing “language borders” in the context of a specific research problem. c) To become aware of contents of other disciplines and their particular approaches to the same problem. d) To use one own expertise to advance science in the area of the case study. e) To integrate knowledge and strategies of the different scientific disciplines involved in Biomedical Informatics.

6. 1st Day 2nd Day 3rd Day 4th Day 5th Day Jury Closing Team work Morning Opening Lunch Afternoon Dinner Night INFOBIOMED TRAINING CHALLENGE • Innovative Format: in 2 groups of 5 students from multidisciplinary backgrounds working collaboratively on a specific case study during one week in a relatively isolated location. The students were coached by several experienced scientists. • Final team presentation of the integrative approach proposed to an international jury. • Award of one-month stay in an INFOBIOMED partner organisation. • 3 editions: Viladrau (Barcelona – Spain) – September 2005; Les Avellanes (Lleida – Spain) May 2006; Edinburgh (Scotland – UK) October 2006.

7. INFOBIOMED TRAINING CHALLENGE • 29 participants. • 11 different nationalities • Gender balance: 16 men, 13 women • 17 participants from organisations external to the consortium. • Average age: 27,5 years old • Average experience in research: 3,1 years • 6 case studies tackled (6 reports submitted) • Topics: Pharmainformatics and Host-pathogen interaction

8. INFOBIOMED TRAINING CHALLENGE SATISFACTION SURVEY The participants scored high most of the aspects of the Training Challenge. • Overall satisfaction with the Training Challenge (1-5 scale): 4.50 • Would recommend the ITC to colleagues: 97.7% • Usefulness compared with “traditional” training events. More useful: 81.3% • MEDIA COVERAGE • Press releases distributed to journalists, several news articles appeared in print media and TV. • Award by the leading Spanish medical newspaper -Diario Médico- as one of ‘The best ideas of the year’ under the ’Professional policies’ category.

9. SUMMER SCHOOL IN BMI • Joint initiative of Biopattern, Infobiomed and Semantic Mining NoEs (in 2007 only INFOBIOMED and Semantic Mining) • Two editions: • - 2nd – 8th of July 2006 in Balatonfüred (Hungary). • - 25th of June 2007 in Barcelona (Spain). • BENEFITS: • European dimension: participation of European projects ACGT, Euresist, Loccandia, @neurist and Health Agents. • Opportunity to reach a larger audience (> 90 attendants) • Students received constructive feedback from seniors and colleagues. • Exploitation of synergies around topics of common interest. • Enhance the visibility of the BMI community in Europe.

10. 2006 EDITION PROGRAMME: Days 1 & 2: Doctoral school. Presentation & feedback round by PhD students; poster sessions Days 3 & 4: Sessions on: text and web mining, data visualization, data and database integration, user aspects of ontologies & knowledge representation, clinical domain case studies Day 5: “Best of” sessions. Presentation of the most relevant results achieved. Day 6: NoE strategic planning, lessons learned from NoEs, future prospects.

11. 2007 EDITION • Satellite activity of the International Symposium on Biomedical Informatics in Europe (ISBI) • PROGRAMME: • - Research Questions • - Methodological Issues • Research Results • Communicating your work: designing and delivering good presentations • - PhD Students’ Presentations • - Summary and conclusions

12. Host organisation Sender organisation MOBILITY PROGRAMME • Open to non-INFOBIOMED partners since January 2006 • BMI integrative approach • Duration 1 to 3 months • International dimension • 4.000 € to INFOBIOMED partner • Approved by a committee • 1 month/15 days exchanges for participants in the Training Challenge • 20 exchanges

13. MOBILITY BROKERAGE SERVICE • A secure web-based marketplace aiming to reinforce the BMI European Community. • Host organisations can advertise job or mobility offers and candidates can post their mobility or job demands. • Host organisations and candidates can look for offers through the MBS. • The system automatically matches offers and demands according to selected criteria and notifies matches to the interested parties. • The MBS is publicly available through the INFOBIOMED website. • Dissemination efforts at several relevant fora.

14. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS & PAPERS • State of the Art report on Methods, Technologies and Tools converted to educational material. Wiki environment. • Joint paper summarising the INFOBIOMED WP3 experience: • Van Mulligen EM, Cases M, Hettne K, Molero E, Weeber M, Robertson K, Oliva B, de la Calle G, Maojo V. "Training Multidisciplinary Biomedical Informatics Students: Three Years of Experience". JAMIA 2007 (submitted).