Medical and Community Health Information
Graduate Certificate
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Students will obtain knowledge and skills in the practice of health informatics and how it applies to the health care and public health settings. Additionally, students will learn about ethnic and cultural implications of health and receive training on providing culturally competent health information services. This certificate will provide students with knowledge and skills that will supplement and be useful in their work in various health information settings, including libraries, community health organizations, health care organizations and information organizations.
*Residents of some U.S. Territories may not be eligible. Please see our Eligibility & State Authorization page for more information.
The curriculum for this program includes:
This course will focus on the online retrieval and evaluation of medical literature and the issues surrounding the provision of timely, relevant, peer-reviewed medical information. Emphasis will be on the development of the intellectual acuity required to provide physicians, nurses, pharmacists, allied health professionals, medical researchers and consumers with targeted responses to medical queries. Current search modalities such as Evidence-Based Medicine will be covered both in readings and in-class discussions.
This course is designed to give students knowledge of health informatics within the context of all types of information centers. The course includes an overview of health information resources -- both public and medical, evaluating and creating health information resources, promoting health and medical information from the library, and use of databases to identify and trying to solve community issues around prevalent health & medical issues within a community. Program planning and evaluation will be introduced. [This course is taught yearly]
This internship is specialized work on an individual basis, consisting of training and practice in actual service in a technical, business, or governmental establishment. Students concurrently enrolled in the M.A. LIS in the School of Information should enroll in a LIS 698 Capstone Internship for a 3 credit internship to satisfy the MA Capstone Internship requirement.
