Medical Informatics Degrees
Medical informatics majors are preparing for careers where they will use their knowledge to create and maintain records systems. Being able to access accurate health records information quickly is important for health care professionals, and graduates of this degree program find work in hospitals, clinics, insurance providers, consulting firms, and more. A degree in medical informatics will help to prepare you for the following careers:
• Medical Database Administrator
• Medical Informatics Project Designer
• Medical Informatics Project Manager
• Medical Informatics Researcher or Research Assistant
• Medical Informatics Systems Analyst
• Teacher or Professor of Medical Informatics
Concentrations in a medical informatics degree program are as follows:
• Bioinformatics
• Clinical Informatics
• Health Information Management
• Nursing Informatics
• Organizational Informatics
• Public Health Informatics
• Social Informatics
Examples of courses that clinical informatics students would take include:
• Anatomy and Physiology
• Computer Science
• Computers in Medicine
• Data Communication and Networks
• Database Concepts
• Diagnostic Medical Imaging
• Discrete Mathematics
• General and Analytical Chemistry
• General Biology
• Introduction to Biomedical Informatics: Fundamental Methods
• Introduction to Biomedical Informatics Research Methodology
• Introduction to Biomedical Informatics: System Design
• Introduction to Multimedia
• Medical Application Integration
• Medical Database Architectures
• Medical Terminology
• Organizational Behavior
• Probability and Statistics
• Project-Based Calculus
• Representations and Algorithms for Computational Molecular Biology
• Software Engineering
• Translational Bioinformatics