A Survey of the Job Profiles of Biomedical Informatics Graduates

Macedo, Alessandra Alaniz; Ruiz, Evandro Eduardo Seron; Baranauskas, José Augusto

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“…The International Medical Informatics Associations (IMIA) has raised this importance, when IMIA’s General Assembly adopted recommendations on health and medical education in 1999 [14], and confirmed the relevance for educating informatics students about HIS in its first revision in 2009 [15]. Furthermore, graduates of educational programs in medical informatics frequently work in the area of health information systems [16, 17, 18, 19, 20]. …”

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On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems

Ammenwerth¹,

Knaup²,

Winter³

et al. 2017

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SummaryBackgroundHealth information systems (HIS) are one of the most important areas for biomedical and health informatics. In order to professionally deal with HIS well-educated informaticians are needed. Because of these reasons, in 2001 an international course has been established: The Frank – van Swieten Lectures on Strategic Information Management of Health Information Systems.ObjectivesReporting about the Frank – van Swieten Lectures and about our students‘ feedback on this course during the last 16 years. Summarizing our lessons learned and making recommendations for such international courses on HIS.MethodsThe basic concept of the Frank – van Swieten lectures is to teach the theoretical background in local lectures, to organize practical exercises on modelling sub-information systems of the respective local HIS and finally to conduct Joint Three Days as an international meeting were the resulting models are introduced and compared.ResultsDuring the last 16 years, the Universities of Amsterdam, Braunschweig, Heidelberg/Heilbronn, Leipzig as well as UMIT were involved in running this course. Overall, 517 students from these universities participated. Our students‘ feedback was clearly positive. The Joint Three Days of the Frank – van Swieten Lectures, where at the end of the course all students can meet, turned out to be an important component of this course. Based on the last 16 years, we recommend common teaching materials, agreement on equivalent clinical areas for the exercises, support of group building of international student groups, motivation of using a collaboration platform, ensuring quality management of the course, addressing different levels of knowledge of the students, and ensuring sufficient funding for joint activities.ConclusionsAlthough associated with considerable additional efforts, we can clearly recommend establishing such international courses on HIS, such as the Frank – van Swieten Lectures.

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Core competencies for clinical informaticians: A systematic review

Davies

Mueller

Moulton

2020

International Journal of Medical Informatics

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Workforce survey of Australian graduate health information managers: Employability, employment, and knowledge and skills used in the workplace

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Robinson

Prasad

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Background: Employability, employment destinations and utilisation of knowledge–skill domains of new graduate health information managers (HIMs) have not been explored. Objectives: To capture the timing from course completion to employment and employment locations of a 5-year cohort of health information management graduates of La Trobe University, Australia, in 2017–2018; identify professional knowledge and skills used by the graduates in executing their roles; and map these to four domains of the health information management curriculum. Method: A mixed-methods descriptive study utilising a survey investigated early career pathways of new graduates of health information management courses from 2012 to 2016. Demographic data included age, year of graduation, lead time from course completion to employment, position title, number of positions held post-graduation and knowledge–skills used in the workplace. Results: Eighty percent ( n = 167) of graduates working in Australia with known contact details responded to the survey. Of these, 96.4% ( n = 161) worked in at least one “health information management-related” position since graduation. Forty-five percent ( n = 72) of graduates obtained a position before course completion, and over 94% ( n = 150) were employed in the profession within 6 months of completion. Sixty percent ( n = 97) of graduates had worked in two or more positions from 2012 to 2016. The large majority of new graduate HIMs (82.4%) were employed in the public healthcare sector in “health information management” (44%), or “health classification” (28.1%) roles. Most graduates (61%) had utilised at least three or four domains of professional knowledge–skills in the workplace. Whereas 16% ( n = 26) of graduates used, solely, their health classification knowledge–skill set, almost 74% ( n = 117) undertook some health classification-related activities. Only 16% ( n = 26) of graduates were over 40 years of age, and there were no statistically significant differences between Bachelor and Master (Combined Degree Programs) graduates and Graduate-entry Master degree graduates in terms of lead time to employment, number of positions held, type of employing agency and professional knowledge–skills utilised in the workplace. Conclusion: Graduate HIMs have very high employability, demonstrate job mobility consistent with the national trends, are largely represented in the public sector but have presence throughout the healthcare system and utilise most or all of the specialised domains of professional knowledge and skills studied at university.

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A Survey of the Job Profiles of Biomedical Informatics Graduates

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems

On Teaching International Courses on Health Information Systems

Core competencies for clinical informaticians: A systematic review

Workforce survey of Australian graduate health information managers: Employability, employment, and knowledge and skills used in the workplace

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