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I am applying for a variety of jobs and some of the universities that I am applying to want to know my approach to teaching. It’s an interesting thing to write about, because most of my teaching experience is in a non-traditional format. Here’s what I wrote for one job I applied for. Continue reading
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I am applying to a variety of jobs and some of them ask for a statement about teaching or research. Here’s something I wrote where the employer asked for a combination of the two. Continue reading
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Another place asked for my research interests and asked me to keep it to a single page. Gack! I do not have an easy time keeping withing page limits. Here’s what I wrote. It won’t be one page on my blog, because of formatting changes, of course. Continue reading
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I’ve been applying for a variety of jobs, and one of them asked for a statement on my research interests. I tried to emphasize the collaborative nature of my research. Here’s what I wrote. Continue reading
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I’ve been applying for a variety of jobs, and one of them asked for a statement on how I would develop an interdisciplinary research program. It’s fun to write these, and I thought I’d share what I wrote with you all. Continue reading
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This article is a nice counterbalance to all the glowing reports about how moving to the electronic health record is going to revolutionize health care. This effort certainly has value, but it comes at a cost. The article talks about the improvements needed to the crude 1990s interface and how to avoid overburdening the medical record with extraneous data. Continue reading
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When I was talking about using the electronic health record as a measurement tool for quality improvement studies, a colleague recommended that I look at a book, Evaluation Methods in Biomedical Informatics by Friedman and Wyatt. I don’t have a copy yet, but the preview offered by Amazon is intriguing. Continue reading
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I am working on a CTSA grant to develop repeatable downstream pipelines that directly access i2b2 and CDM. In order to promote this work and encourage others to participate, I was given a repository site on github, kumc-bmi/heron-i2b2-analytics. Right now, it is just a shell, but here’s what I want to do with it, short term and long term. Continue reading
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A couple of my students are having difficulty with restructuring data sets in SAS. This is not surprising. Restructuring is very important, but not so easy. I decided to run a few simple examples of PROC TRANSPOSE to help clarify things. Here is the code and output. Continue reading
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I heard a story a long time ago, and I don’t remember who told it to me and I’m probably getting all the details wrong, but I wanted to try to recreate the story from memory because it illustrates one of the perils of blind reliance on statistical models to identify “important” variables. Continue reading