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Relationships with Professional Schools: The University of Minnesota Experience

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Medicine

Office of Biomedical Health Informatics

Vice President for Health Sciences

Institute for Health

InformaticsVeterinary Medicine

Public Health

Pharmacy

Nursing

Dentistry

Associate VP Education

Clinical and Translationa

l Sciences Institute

Academic Health Center

BMI

Administrative Academic

GraduateProgram

Research

University ofMinnesota

Financial Arrangements• School affiliation agreements– Responsibilities– Compensation• General• Teaching specific

– Grants and Contracts• Home determination• Indirect costs and salary recovery splits

• Base budget from the Vice President for Health Sciences.

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Nursing

• Nursing informatics courses approved for HI graduate students.

• HI courses accepted for nursing informatics programs.

• Faculty exchange for student committee service.

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Public Health

• Public Health courses required for HI graduate program – Biostatistics

• A number of Public Health courses are approved for HI graduate students.

• Exploring a joint program in Public Health Informatics– Shared courses, faculty and governance

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Student Research Placement• Students undertake research in the form of

assistantships with faculty from a number of AHC schools– Medicine– Public Health– Pharmacy– Nursing

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Collaborations in Health Professions Education

• Medicine – Primary Care Clerkship session on EHRs

• Pharmacy – PharmD elective course in pharmacy informatics in development.

• Nursing informatics is an integral component of their professional training.

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Issues

• Coordinating program development of profession oriented informatics

• Tuition structures• Density of the health professions curricula

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AHC Interprofessional Informatics Collaboration Model

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U of MN 1Health Interprofessional Education Model

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Interprofessional Informatics