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Biomedical Informatics Training for Dental Researchers

Office of Dental Informatics, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, 1011 North University Avenue, B322D DENT, Ann Arbor, MI 481309-1078, Lynn.A.Johnson{at}umich.edu

Dental researchers collaborating closely with biomedical informaticians have achieved many advances in oral health research, such as in mapping human genetics and addressing oral health disparities. Advances will continue to increase as dental researchers and biomedical informaticians study each others’ disciplines to increase the effectiveness of their collaborative research. The combined skills will greatly increase the effectiveness of dental research. This manuscript summarizes the core of biomedical informatics curriculum (biomedical informatics knowledge, data management, and software engineering) for dental research. It also summarizes the obstacles that must be overcome for all dental research students to receive the training in biomedical informatics they require. These issues are: a lack of biomedical informatics faculty, a lack of biomedical informatics courses, and a lack of accreditation standards. Last, intra- and inter-institutional collaboration solutions are described.

"The decades ahead will be witness to advances in science and technology as yet unforeseen. Dentistry will benefit from these advances and must be intimately involved in their progression." (American Dental Association, 2002)

KEY WORDS: Dental education • graduate education curriculum • biomedical informatics training