The Advanced Graduate Certificate program has been designed to provide students with the basic grounding in Biomedical Informatics and the flexibility to design a curriculum that best augments their current training. A minimum of 15 credits is required for the Advanced Graduate Certificate.
Required Courses:
- 15 approved graduate credits including BMI 501, BMI 502 and/or BMI 503. As well as one from the following list corresponding to the track specialization: BMI 511 Translational Bioinformatics, BMI 512 Clinical Informatics or BMI 513 Imaging Informatics.
- All courses taken outside the Program for application to the graduate degree requirements are subject to prior approval of the student’s advisor and the BMI Graduate Program Director.
- Students must complete all the required courses from at least one of the Biomedical Informatics program tracks (see AGC Course Table, below).
Transfer Credits:
A maximum of 6 graduate credits may be transferred from other programs toward the Advanced Graduate Certificate. These may include up to 3 credits from other institutions. The maximum also includes any credits received from taking Biomedical Informatics courses while having non-degree status at Stony Brook as an SPD or GSP student. Credits used to obtain any prior degrees are not eligible for transfer. All requests for transfer of credits require the prior approval of the BMI Graduate Program Director.
Time Limit:
Full-time students must complete all Advanced Graduate Certificate requirements within two years.
Part-time students must complete all Advanced Graduate Certificate requirements within four years.
Advanced Graduate Certificate Course Table with track requirements:
| *=required for track | Advanced Graduate Certificate | |||
| Course # | Title | Imaging Informatics Track (II) | Clinical Informatics Track (CI) | Translational Bio-informatics Track (TBI) |
| BMI 501 | Intro. To Biomedical Informatics | x* | x* | x* |
| BMI 502 | Life Sciences for Biomedical Informatics | x* or 503 | x* or 503 | x* or 503 |
| BMI 503 | Computer Science for Biomedical Informatics | x* or 502 | x* or 502 | x* or 502 |
| BMI 511 | Translational Bioinformatics | x* | ||
| BMI 512 | Clinical Informatics | x* | ||
| BMI 513 | Imaging Informatics | x* | ||
| BMI 514 | Imaging Informatics Analysis | x | ||
| BMI 517 | Current Research in Signaling Pathways, Biochemistry, and Tissue Morphology of Disease | x | x | x |
| BMI 520 | Data Analytics and Software Stacks | x | x | x |
| BMI 530 | Software Development in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 540 | Statistical Methods in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 550 | Clinical Informatics Practice Patterns | x | ||
| BMI 551 | Case Studies in Clinical Informatics | x | ||
| BMI 552 | Quality Improvement Methods for Clinical Informatics | x | ||
| BMI 560 | Personalized Medicine | x | ||
| BMI 590 | Independent Study in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 591 | Independent Reading in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 595 | Special Topics in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 596 | Special Problems in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 620 | Advanced Topics in Clinical Informatics | x | ||
| BMI 622 | Advanced Topics in Translational Bioinformatics | x | ||
| BMI 625 | Advanced Topics in Imaging Informatics | x | ||
| BMI 690 | Independent Study in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 691 | Independent Reading in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 695 | Special Topics in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |
| BMI 696 | Special Problems in Biomedical Informatics | x | x | x |