The purpose of this elective is to familiarize students with data standards and vocabularies, IRB compliance and protocols, as well as HIPAA in practice and research. The course will consist of a mixture of virtual lectures and hand on exercises. At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to:
- Describe how data standards are used in the electronic health record
- Build a protocol for extracting data using data standards, specifically SNOMED, LOINC and ICD-10 codes.
-Build an IRB protocol for a potential project involving human subjects research
- Apply the rules of HIPAA to research and practice situations

The purpose of this elective is to familiarize students with all aspects of the Virtual Data Warehouse (VDW). The course will consist of a mixture of virtual lectures and hand on exercises. At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to:
- Perform a query in Slicer Dicer
- Clean data extracted from the VDW
-Validate data extracted from the VDW
- Discuss and apply different de-identification methods

The purpose of this elective is to identify the key concepts of Clinical Decision Support (CDS). The course will consist of a a mixture of virtual lectures and hand on exercises. At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to:
- Discuss the benefits and drawbacks to Clinical Decision Support
- Critique current CDS alerts
-Design a CDS alert

The purpose of this elective is to familiarize students with Natural Language Processing (NLP). The course will consist of a a mixture of virtual lectures and hand on exercises. At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to:
- Discuss the free platforms available
- Operate Canary NLP tool
- Employ Canary to extract text from EHR notes

The purpose of this elective is to relate the key principles and concepts of precision medicine and how they impact individual and population health. At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to:
1. Describe precision health in medicine and its impact on individual health
2. Provide examples of precision health's impact on individual and population health
3. Discuss the role of Omics in medicine
4. Use precision medicine websites to identify how precision medicine is utilized to help improve individual and population health

This elective provides an opportunity for students to participate in new and ongoing Clinical Informatics research projects in the Department of Biomedical Informatics. Research projects may include working with registries and large databases to examine and investigate current clinical problems. Projects may be from 4-8 weeks in duration, done at flexible time periods to allow the student to participate in conjunction with their regular academic schedule.
Recent topics of research have included:
-Gun violence in southwest Michigan
-Effects of alcohol and drug use on traumatic brain injuries
-Timing and dosages of Lovenox for prevention of DVT/PE after traumatic injury
-Effect of pre-hospital aspiration in trauma patients and subsequent development of pneumonia
-Effects of health information technology and EHRs on physician stress/burnout and health care quality
-The impact on pt BMI of GLP-1 inhibitors
-Obesity research
-Minority health research
-Natural Language processing

Topics are flexible and open to student interest to develop their own clinical question to investigate. Students will have an opportunity to work with clinical databases used for current clinical research as well as a variety of other 'big data' databases to facilitate understand of, and use of these large datasets in Informatics research.

The purpose of this elective is to give the fourth-year medical student more detailed exposure to key topics in clinical informatics and to introduce them to the clinical informatics sub-specialty. It is designed for fourth year medical students who are interested in exploring important and emerging concepts in Clinical Informatics, as well as describing opportunities for careers in Clinical Informatics.

The course will consist of a guided review of the literature of both current and important historical articles related to the three key topics listed below.
At the completion of this elective, the student should be able to:
Describe the career pathways for physicians interested in clinical informatics, including training pathways and board certification.
Define and describe several key issues/challenges related to the use of electronic health records in the clinical setting, specifically:
1. The advantages and challenges of using computerized clinical decision support
2. The HIPAA privacy and security rules governing the use of personally identifiable patient information for patient treatment, research, and quality improvement.
3. The relationship between the use of EHR's and other health information technologies with physician burnout and other physician workforce issues.
Refine their presentation and critical appraisal skills by reviewing and presenting on assigned articles from the three topic areas