The Curriculum Development Project
The Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics (SSABMI) Program is committed to training and development in the field at all levels, from graduate through post-doctoral including program development. The SSABMI program develops and offers introductory graduate classes in biomedical informatics in South Africa with the ultimate intent of training the next generation of South African faculty.
The SSABMI program distributes its class content to facilitate the development of new classes in the topic by faculty at academic institutions with emerging graduate programs. The curriculum development project seeks to accelerate the development of course content in biomedical informatics by disseminating SSABMI class material in a form that is easily accessible and assimilated by the academic community. Towards this end, it is our intent to capture SSABMI class content as videos and in other electronic formats. We provide videos of lectures and supplementary materials as DVD's for academic use at low or zero cost. We will provide content to the Fogarty funded training programs in developing countries for free. Other academic organizations will be charged a small fee to cover the cost of duplication and distribution.
The Pharmacogenomics class is the first class to be recorded and distributed under the SSABMI Curriculum Development Project. For more information about the class, follow the Pharmacogenomics link on the upper left hand side of this page.
This course is sponsored in part by the PharmGKB project and the Stanford-South Africa Biomedical Informatics Program (SSABMI). The Pharmacogenetics Research Network and Database (PGRN) is financially supported by grants from NIGMS, NHLBI, NHGRI, NIEHS, NCI, and NLM within the NIH, HHS. PharmGKB is managed at Stanford University and is supported by the NIH/NIGMS Pharmacogenetics Research Network and Database (U01GM61374). The SSABMI is a joint training program between Stanford University, University of the Western Cape, University of Cape Town and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases. SSABMI is funded by the Fogarty Center, a section of NIH under award TW006993.