A Comparative Summary of Six Health/Medical Informatics Programs

Dickhaus, H.

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“…It probably explains the relatively small number of students who completed the full curriculum up to the State Doctorate level. The current situation of the French Advanced Study level in medical informatics is closer to the international understanding of what a Master's degree in medical informatics-should mean [6] and this will facilitate the training of the professionals who are now required by the development of the discipline both within the public and private sectors.…”

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Graduate Programs in Medical Informatics at the Paris Universities

Degoulet¹,

Venot²,

Auvert³

et al. 1995

Yearb Med Inform

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Abstract:Most medical schools in France have chairs in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics to coordinate the teaching of these two disciplines both within the regular curriculum of the medical studies and as a specialized teaching. This paper describes the current medical informatics specialized program offered at the Paris Universities. Since 1968 the program has comprised a Master of Science and a Ph.D. degree. At the Master Level, despite several reforms and in-depth program revisions the curriculum is still organized as a set of modules of 100 hours teachins with a large freedom for the medical faculties to define the contents of the courses and for the students to organize their studies and combine medical informatics, biomathematics and biostatistics training. Since 1990, an intensive one-year full-time course is offered, called Advanced Study Diploma in Medical Informatics, which is strongly research oriented. This program seems a good strategy to form medical informatics special1 ists who have initially received a broader education in informatics and statistics.

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Graduate Programs in Medical Informatics at the Paris Universities

Degoulet¹,

Venot²,

Auvert³

et al. 1995

Yearb Med Inform

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“…It is difficult to compare medical informatics programs, because of the wide range that is covered by the subject. Each program is characterized by the extent to which the curriculum covers the whole spectrum of medical informatics and by the degree level that can be reached (undergraduate, master, PhD, postdoctoral [58]). Huang analyzed in [10] the competencies provided by different programs.…”

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Challenges in the Evolution of the Medical Informatics Program at Heidelberg/Heilbronn (Germany)

Knaup¹,

Haag²,

Leven³

et al. 2009

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Summary Objective: Health and medical informatics (HMI) is an evolving discipline. Therefore, evolving educational programs in HMI have to take a variety of requirements into account. The aim of this paper is to analyze these requirements and to compare them with the medical informatics program Heidelberg/Heilbronn, Germany. Methods: Systematic analysis of the IMIA recommendations on educating HMI, the Bologna declaration, current technological and health care developments and the results of graduates surveys. Results: The latest revision of the Heidelberg/ Heilbronn medical informatics program not only takes current developments into account but also realizes the IMIA recommendations, the Bologna declaration and graduates’ data and feedback obtained in structured surveys. The topics bioinformatics, IT security and tele-medicine were strengthened, taking major research and application trends into account. The program has been transformed into a consecutive bachelor/master program. It qualifies its graduates to work in the field of medical informatics as well as in informatics. Conclusions: Medical informatics is a very broad field. Programs have to make concessions to scope: It is not possible to provide profound knowledge and skills in computer science and also teach a variety of application areas like bioinformatics, public health informatics and clinical informatics in depth within one medical informatics program. Many graduate programs in various nations concentrate on providing HMI skills to health care professionals.

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“…infonnatics [1,17,18], the growing competition in the field ofMI -related curricula, new laws on health-care strUctures in Germany, and the above-mentioned requirement to reduce the length of studies. as a discipline comprising the development of specific methods and tools of its own for handling problems in medicine and health care.…”

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Twenty Five Years of Medical Informatics Education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn: Discussion of a Specialized Curriculum for Medical Informatics

Leven¹,

Haux²

2000

Yearb Med Inform

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The specialized university curriculum for medical informatics (MI) at the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn is one of the oldest educational approaches in the field of medical informatics, and has been successful for 25 years with about 1,000 graduates (Diplom-Informatikerin der Medizin or Diplom-Informatiker der Medizin). It belongs to the category of dedicated master’s programs for medical informatics and is based on the concept of medical informatics as a medical discipline in its own right. The curriculum is oriented towards the total spectrum of medical informatics ranging from health care economics, biosignal and medical image processing, medical documentation, to information and knowledge processing in medicine. It is a 4.5-year program with strong emphasis on the methodological foundations of medical informatics and on practical education in a number of specific laboratories. Thirty-five students are admitted each semester, and in total about 440 students are enrolled. The faculty consists of 17 full-time members and about 25 part-time lecturers. We report on characteristics, structure and contents of the new 5th version of the curriculum and discuss the features of a specialized curriculum for medical informatics with respect to the challenges for medical informatics in the 21st century.

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A Comparative Summary of Six Health/Medical Informatics Programs

Cited by 11 publications

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Graduate Programs in Medical Informatics at the Paris Universities

Graduate Programs in Medical Informatics at the Paris Universities

Challenges in the Evolution of the Medical Informatics Program at Heidelberg/Heilbronn (Germany)

Twenty Five Years of Medical Informatics Education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn: Discussion of a Specialized Curriculum for Medical Informatics

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