Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;109:226-43.
The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) agreed on international recommendations in health informatics / medical informatics education. These should help to establish courses, course tracks or even complete programs in this field, to further develop existing educational activities in the various nations and to support international initiatives concerning education in health and medical informatics (HMI), particularly international activities in educating HMI specialists and the sharing of courseware. The IMIA recommendations centre on educational needs for health care professionals to acquire knowledge and skills in information processing and information and communication technology. The educational needs are described as a three-dimensional framework. The dimensions are: 1) professionals in health care (physicians, nurses, HMI professionals, ...), 2) type of specialisation in health and medical informatics (IT users, HMI specialists) and 3) stage of career progression (bachelor, master, ...). Learning outcomes are defined in terms of knowledge and practical skills for health care professionals in their role (a) as IT user and (b) as HMI specialist. Recommendations are given for courses/course tracks in HMI as part of educational programs in medicine, nursing, health care management, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, health record administration, and informatics/computer science as well as for dedicated programs in HMI (with bachelor, master or doctor degree). To support education in HMI, IMIA offers to award a certificate for high quality HMI education and supports information exchange on programs and courses in HMI through a WWW server of its Working Group on Health and Medical Informatics Education (http://www.imia.org/wg1).
国际医学信息学协会（IMIA）就健康信息学/医学信息学教育的国际建议达成了一致。这些建议应有助于在该领域设立课程、课程轨道甚至完整的项目，进一步发展各国现有的教育活动，并支持有关健康和医学信息学（HMI）教育的国际倡议，特别是在培养HMI专家和共享课件方面的国际活动。IMIA的建议集中在医疗保健专业人员获取信息处理以及信息和通信技术方面的知识和技能的教育需求上。教育需求被描述为一个三维框架。这三个维度分别是：1）医疗保健专业人员（医生、护士、HMI专业人员等），2）健康和医学信息学的专业类型（IT用户、HMI专家），3）职业发展阶段（学士、硕士等）。学习成果是根据医疗保健专业人员作为（a）IT用户和（b）HMI专家的角色所需的知识和实践技能来定义的。针对HMI课程/课程轨道给出了建议，这些课程/课程轨道是医学、护理、医疗保健管理、牙科、药学、公共卫生、健康记录管理以及信息学/计算机科学等教育项目的一部分，同时也针对HMI的专门项目（具有学士、硕士或博士学位）给出了建议。为了支持HMI教育，IMIA提议为高质量的HMI教育颁发证书，并通过其健康和医学信息学教育工作组的万维网服务器（http://www.imia.org/wg1）支持HMI项目和课程的信息交流。
