Training Multidisciplinary Biomedical Informatics Students: Three Years of Experience

Mulligen, Erik M. van; Cases, Montserrat; Hettne, Kristina; Molero, Eva; Weeber, Marc; Robertson, Kevin A.; Oliva, Baldomero; Calle, Guillermo de la; Maojo, Víctor

doi:10.1197/jamia.m2488

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“…Also we should pay special attention to innovative teaching methods that are being applied successfully in this field such as workshops, summer schools, online resources, Web 2.0, multidisciplinary working groups, problem-solving oriented training [29,30,31].…”

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Education, Research and Professionalism in Health and Biomedical Informatics: Myths, Realities and Proposals for the Future

Martín-Sánchez¹,

Gray²

2011

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This article proposes a definition of the field of Health and Biomedical Informatics, in line with recent international developments. According to the authors, there are several myths or misconception concerning the future development of this scientific and professional discipline. We describe the current situation of Health and Biomedical Informatics at an international level, include specific analysis for the two countries where the authors have worked (Spain and Australia) and finally propose a series of recommendations to improve it.All this analysis is carried out in three areas: education, research, and professionalism (characterisation and development of the profession). Defining the body of knowledge of the discipline itself is an initial step that must be made and taken as soon as possible.

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Education, Research and Professionalism in Health and Biomedical Informatics: Myths, Realities and Proposals for the Future

Martín-Sánchez¹,

Gray²

2011

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“…The "INFOBIOMED Training Challenge" [16,17] was a "24 hours /5 days" training activity organized by the INFOBIOMED European Network of Excellence, funded by the European Commission and coordinated by the GRIB research group from the Universidad Pompeu-Fabra of Spain. The aim of this innovative activity was not only to provide training on bioinformatics but also on biomedical informatics by facilitating a collaborative problem-solving environment.…”

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Training Health Professionals in Bioinformatics

López–Campos

López-Alonso²,

Martín-Sánchez

2010

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“…Friedman et al [26] formulate requirements for training in biomedical informatics. Nevertheless, various authors argue that bioinformatics and medical informatics differ considerably with regard to the objectives and the domain knowledge [27,28]. Thus, a biomedical informatics program cannot teach both aspects in depth; but bioinformatics students should gain a basic understanding of HMI principles, methods and tools, and vice versa.…”

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“…As a result of the latest special topic conference on health and medical informatics education, the integration of bioinformatics, clinical informatics and public health informatics was seen as a major challenge in health and medical informatics education [69]. This leads to the demand to teach MI as an interdisciplinary approach [70] and teach skills for working in multidisciplinary teams [28].…”

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

Knaup¹,

Haag²,

Leven³

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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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Training Multidisciplinary Biomedical Informatics Students: Three Years of Experience

Abstract: The training activities undertaken in INFOBIOMED have contributed to a multi-disciplinary BMI approach. It is our hope that this work might provide an impetus for training efforts in Europe, and yield a new generation of biomedical informaticians.

Cited by 12 publications

References 33 publications

Education, Research and Professionalism in Health and Biomedical Informatics: Myths, Realities and Proposals for the Future

Education, Research and Professionalism in Health and Biomedical Informatics: Myths, Realities and Proposals for the Future

Training Health Professionals in Bioinformatics

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

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