A Call to Support Informatics Curricula in U.S.-Based Residency Education

Jacqueline G. You; Lipika Samal; Tiffany I. Leung; Ajay Dharod; Haipeng M. Zhang; David C. Kaelber; Rebecca G. Mishuris

doi:10.1055/a-2198-7788

Applied Clinical Informatics, Table of Contents

Appl Clin Inform 2023; 14(05): 992-995
DOI: 10.1055/a-2198-7788

Letter to the Editor

A Call to Support Informatics Curricula in U.S.-Based Residency Education

Jacqueline G. You

¹Department of Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

²Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Lipika Samal

²Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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Tiffany I. Leung

³Department of Internal Medicine (adjunct), Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, United States

⁴Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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Ajay Dharod

⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Informatics and Analytics, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States

⁶Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Section on General Internal Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States

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Haipeng M. Zhang

⁷Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Division of Adult Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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David C. Kaelber

⁸Department of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Population, and Quantitative Health Sciences, The Center for Clinical Informatics Research and Education, MetroHealth System, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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Rebecca G. Mishuris

²Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

⁹Digital, Mass General Brigham, Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

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