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. 2020 Oct 14;27(11):1641–1647. doi: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa206

Table 1.

Characteristics of biomedical informatics-related graduates, N = 2426 (2002–2017)

Variable Frequency (%)
Race

  • White

  • Asian

  • Total Underrepresented racial minority (URM)

  • Hispanic

  • Black

  • Other URM

1166 (48.1)

976 (40.2)

284 (11.7)

139 (5.7)

77 (3.2)

68 (2.8)
Sex

  • Male

  • Female

1445 (56.6)

981 (40.4)
Age groups

  • Less than or equal to 30 years

  • 31-40 years

  • 41-50 years

  • Greater than or equal to 51 years

137 (5.7)

1389 (57.3)

723 (29.8)

177 (7.3)
Marital Status

  • Single, never married

  • Married

  • Separated/Divorced

882 (36.4)

1475 (60.8)

69 (2.8)
Number of dependents aged <18 years

  • 0

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3 or more

2236 (92.2)

121 (5)

51 (2.1)

18 (0.7)
US Citizen (yes)  1408 (58)
Received full tuition remission while a doctoral student (yes)  2007 (82.7)
Biomedical informatics-related training category

  • Bioinformatics primary field

  • Computer science field is primary with secondary health field

  • Health field is primary with secondary computer science field

1471 (60.6)

619 (25.5)

336 (13.9)
Carnegie classification

  • Highest research activity (R1)

  • Higher research activity (R2)

  • Moderate research activity (R3)

  • Other

1924 (79.3)

248 (10.2)

29 (1.2)

225 (9.3)
Type of university

  • Public

  • Private

1643 (67.7)

783 (32.3)
Total number of graduates

  • 2002 (first year of study period)

  • 2017 (last year of study period)

54 (2.2)

342 (14.1)