Prins H, Cornet R, van den Berg F M, van der Togt R, Abu-Hanna A
Dept. of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2002;90:627-31.
In 2001, the revised course Software Engineering has been implemented in the Medical Informatics curriculum at the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam. This 13 weeks, full-time course consists of three parts: internship, theory and project. All parts are provided in problem-oriented manner with special attention for relevant skills such as project management, documentation and presentation. During the internship, students observe how health care professionals at several hospital wards work and how information supply is organized. In the theory part, students study concepts and methods of software engineering by means of case descriptions and self-directed learning. During the project, they apply their acquired knowledge to an observed, clinical information problem and complete several stages of the software engineering process. Evaluation by inquiry showed that, compared to other courses, students spent more time, and distributed their time more evenly, during the whole period of the course. In conjunction with theory, a combination of internship and project in a hospital seems to provide a surplus value compared to a practical in a computer laboratory. The integration of software theory, clinical practice and problem-based approach, contributed to the enthusiastic, intensive and realistic way students learned in this important topic that might be chosen as a future profession.
2001年，修订后的软件工程课程已在阿姆斯特丹学术医疗中心的医学信息学课程中实施。这门为期13周的全日制课程由三个部分组成：实习、理论和项目。所有部分均以问题导向的方式提供，特别关注项目管理、文档编制和演示等相关技能。在实习期间，学生观察几个医院病房的医护人员如何工作以及信息供应是如何组织的。在理论部分，学生通过案例描述和自主学习来学习软件工程的概念和方法。在项目期间，他们将所学知识应用于观察到的临床信息问题，并完成软件工程过程的几个阶段。通过调查评估发现，与其他课程相比，学生在整个课程期间花费的时间更多，并且时间分配更加均匀。与理论相结合，在医院进行实习和项目的组合似乎比在计算机实验室进行实践更具附加值。软件理论、临床实践和基于问题的方法的整合，促成了学生以热情、深入和现实的方式学习这个可能被选作未来职业的重要课题。
