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Today's Topics:

   1. Medical Informatics hiring, interview & work experience

      (Scot Silverstein)

   2. Bar codes - NDC codes burried in UPC (Marie Saunders)

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Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 12:48:18 -0400

From: Scot Silverstein <Scot.Silverstein@...>

Subject: [cis-wg] Medical Informatics hiring, interview & work

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Some time ago, I posted a message regarding a survey of Medical 

Informatics-related hiring/interview experiences.  I'm in the process of 

formulating the questions for such a survey.  My hypothesis is that there 

is significant misunderstanding in the healthcare and biomedical R&D 

industries regarding medical informatics and the contributions 

informaticians make (or can make) if given the opportunity. The 

misunderstanding manifests as suboptimal job formulation, candidate 

identification, interview processes, hiring, organizational positioning, 

and on-the-job difficulties for informaticians, suggesting a need for 

better understanding of the informatician’s role in clinical or research 

settings.

In testing the hypothesis,  I envision a survey (e.g, across the 

membership of AMIA) to see if anecdotal experiences I've collected over 

the past decade occur to a degree that might significantly limit 

opportunities and contributions of highly-skilled, cross-disciplinary 

healthcare informatics personnel.  If so, educational action and advocacy 

would be suggested to enhance the contribution of informaticians and 

increase the ROI of efforts to train them at federal and institutional 

levels.

I plan to develop the survey questions based upon a list of experiences 

and observations.  I am interested in feedback on the list.  The list 

originates from communications with others in informatics, as well as with 

executives, recruiters and HR personnel in industry.

The list of observations is at: 

     http://www.cis.drexel.edu/faculty/ssilverstein/informat_pos.htm 

I am interested in feedback on this list.  Too broad?  Too uncommon? 

Off-base?  etc. 

Regards,

Scot

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Scot M. Silverstein, MD 

Assistant Professor of Healthcare Informatics and IT 

Director, Institute for Healthcare Informatics 

College of Information Science and Technology 

Drexel University 

3141 Chestnut St. 

Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875 

(215)895-1085 

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