You can add a keyboard shortcut by using Daniel Jalkut’s FastScripts. Works perfectly for this kind of problem:

http://www.red-sweater.com/fastscripts/

Another strong interest I have — coming from hospice — is palliative care, which also seems to be commonly associated with oncology. So this gives me yet another reason to seriously consider cancer.

As for postdoc work, I know it’s an option — but tagging a PhD onto an MD would have been something better chosen before starting, since most schools will pay your way if you’re willing to do the combined MD/PhD. (Of course, I notice you’re an MD/PhD yourself and working in academic medicine too, so you already know that. :))

More to the point, there is Biomedical Informatics, with a national research society (the American Medical Informatics Association, http://www.amia.org) and well-developed Master’s and PhD training programs supported by the National Library of Medicine (see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/ep/GrantTrainInstitute.html). The National Cancer Institute supports a major effort to develop and disseminate open source software supporting cancer research and care (the Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid, https://cabig.nci.nih.gov). Other NIH institutes such as the NHLBI are also beginning efforts specifically targeting the development of information technology in healthcare research and delivery. Particular areas of medicine such as pathology and radiology have had substantial subspecialty areas related to software and systems development for some time.

Other relevant links:

Health Informatics World Wide
HITSphere — health IT weblogs
LinuxMedNews — health IT with an open source perspective

Good luck with your training. If your interests in software persist, you will have an opportunity to combine those with your medical training for postgraduate work. This is an excellent time to have those interests.