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Twin Cities Campus
Health Informatics M.S.Health Informatics, AHC Inst
Graduate School
Link to a list of faculty for this program.
Contact Information
Institute for Health Informatics, MMC 912 Mayo, 420 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-626-3348; fax: 612-626-7227)
Email:
ihi@umn.edu
Website: http://www.bmhi.umn.edu
Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the
General Information section of
this
website for requirements that apply to all major fields.
Health informatics is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship that applies computer, information, and cognitive sciences to promote the effective and efficient use and analysis of information, ultimately improving the health, well-being, and economic functioning of society. Students take a sequence of core courses in health informatics and biostatistics, and electives in technical and health science areas. Possible areas of emphasis include health information systems, telehealth, bioinformatics, user interface design, system impact evaluation, database construction and analysis, clinical decision-making, evaluation of health programs, and physiological monitoring and control.
Program Delivery
Prerequisites for Admission
The preferred undergraduate GPA for admittance to the program
is 3.00.
Applicants are expected to have at least a bachelor of science or equivalent degree from a recognized institution of higher education.
Other requirements to be completed before admission:
Applicants are required to have taken 6 semester credits or 9 quarter credits in medical, life, or biological sciences from a recognized institution of higher learning. This a broadly defined requirement and most courses with a health or biology emphasis will be accepted including biostatistics, health services research, and public health, as well as the more traditional biology or life science courses.
Applicants are required to have taken a course or to have documented work experience in a programming or application language such as C, C++, JAVA, Visual Basic, PASCAL, etc.
Applicants must submit their test score(s) from the following:
International applicants must submit score(s) from one of the following tests:
The preferred English language test is Test of English as Foreign Language.
Key to test
abbreviations
(GRE, GMAT, MCAT, TOEFL, IELTS, MELAB).
For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the
General Information section of this
website.
Program Requirements
Plan A: Plan A requires
15
major credits,
6
credits outside the major,
and
10
thesis credits.
The final exam is written and oral.
Plan B: Plan B requires
19
major credits and
6
credits outside the major.
The final exam is written and oral.
A capstone project is required.
Capstone Project: The Plan B project is an independent project focused on a health informatics application, culminating in a written report. The general Graduate School requirement is that students must demonstrate familiarity with the tools of research or scholarship in the field, the ability to work independently, and the ability to present the results of investigation effectively, by completing at least one and up to three Plan B projects, equivalent to approximately 120 hours of work. In general, advisers are responsible for approving the project(s), determining relative worth for satisfying the entire requirement, and specifying how students will share their findings with their Examining Committee.
This program may be completed with a minor.
Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.
A minimum GPA of 3.00
is required for students to remain in good standing.
At least 2 semesters must be completed
before filing a Degree Program Form.
The research-oriented Plan A master's degree is available to advanced applicants. It requires 32 course credits and 10 thesis credits. The Plan B option requires 42 course credits. Both plans require 6 credits of introductory health informatics, 2 credits of seminar, 3 credits of health care and clinical informatics courses, 2 credits of interprofessional health informatics, 5 credits of database and software management courses, 3 credits of statistics.
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