A Comparative Summary of Six Health/Medical Informatics Programs

Abstract:

This paper tries to compare six Health Informatics/Medical Informatics (HI/MI) programs by a number of attributes in standardized form. The different programs and their curricula were summarized at the 5th IMIA Working Conference on HI/MI Education at Heidelberg/Heilbronn. The presentation is condensed to a synoptical scheme. Most of the information used for this purpose is taken from five individual papers about the programs presented in this special issue of Methods of Information in Medicine.

Keywords

Health Informatics - Medical Informatics - Curriculum - Education

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