Biomedical and Health Informatics Education – the IMIA Years

• Published in: Yearbook of medical informatics Vol. 25; no. S 01; pp. S92 - S102
• Main Author: Mantas, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Stuttgart Georg Thieme Verlag KG 02.08.2016; Schattauer GmbH
• Subjects: Bibliometrics; Curriculum; History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Medical Informatics - education; Medical Informatics - history; Original Article; State-of-the-Art; biomedical informatics; health informatics; medical informatics; nursing informatics; Education
• DOI: 10.15265/IY-2016-032
• ISSN: 0943-4747

Summary Objective: This paper presents the development of medical informatics education during the years from the establishment of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) until today. Method: A search in the literature was performed using search engines and appropriate keywords as well as a manual selection of papers. The search covered English language papers and was limited to search on papers title and abstract only. Results: The aggregated papers were analyzed on the basis of the subject area, origin, time span, and curriculum development, and conclusions were drawn. Conclusions: From the results, it is evident that IMIA has played a major role in comparing and integrating the Biomedical and Health Informatics educational efforts across the different levels of education and the regional distribution of educators and institutions. A large selection of references is presented facilitating future work on the field of education in biomedical and health informatics.