What do informaticians know?
Informaticians come with very different knowledge and sets of skills. First of all, informaticians who have graduated from high-quality training programs tend to have completed MS or PhD degrees in biomedical informatics. Second, where they completed their informatics training largely determines which areas they are strongest in. Good training programs tend to be strong in a few areas (such as artificial intelligence, clinical informatics applications, cognitive science or bioinformatics), while at the same time delivering good basic foundational training in biomedical informatics.
