Jaspers Monique W M, Hasman Arie
Department of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Int J Med Inform. 2007 Dec;76 Suppl 3:S369-76. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2007.04.001. Epub 2007 May 11.
To describe the new set-up of our Master of Science program in medical informatics that started in September 2006 at the University of Amsterdam-Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands.
To harmonize with the Bologna declaration, we transformed our former medical informatics program from a 4-year course into a 3-year bachelor and a 2-year (English) Master of Science Medical Informatics program. We describe the objectives, organizational structure and contents of this new medical informatics master program.
The new master program now is aimed at (international) baccalaureates in medical informatics, computer science, medicine and other health-related studies and professionals from these disciplines. The master course comprises four study semesters of 30 EC each, equal to 120 EC in total. Central to the program is the context of hospital organization, encompassing medical practice and patient care, information and communication technologies and (logistic) structuring of health care and health care processes. The program comprises core education (60 EC), discipline-related in-depth-study (12 EC) and an academic work placement (48 EC). Students from a range of other disciplines will be admitted to the master program after successful completion of an individualized conversion program (a maximum of 30 EC).
With the new set-up of our master course and by offering individualized conversion programs, we hope to both accommodate the learning needs of our own medical informatics baccalaureates and to attract other (international) students and professionals to our new program. Our ultimate aim is to bring forth medical informatics specialists who can make significant contributions to the field.
描述2006年9月在荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学学术医疗中心启动的医学信息学理学硕士项目的新设置。
为与博洛尼亚宣言保持一致，我们将之前的医学信息学项目从一个为期4年的课程转变为一个为期3年的学士学位课程和一个为期2年的（英语）医学信息学理学硕士项目。我们描述了这个新的医学信息学硕士项目的目标、组织结构和内容。
新的硕士项目现在面向医学信息学、计算机科学、医学及其他健康相关研究领域的（国际）学士学位获得者以及这些学科的专业人士。硕士课程包括四个学习学期，每个学期30个欧洲学分，总计120个欧洲学分。该项目的核心是医院组织背景，涵盖医疗实践和患者护理、信息与通信技术以及医疗保健和医疗保健流程的（后勤）结构化。该项目包括核心教育（60个欧洲学分）、学科相关的深入研究（12个欧洲学分）和学术实习（48个欧洲学分）。其他一系列学科的学生在成功完成个性化转换课程（最多30个欧洲学分）后将被该硕士项目录取。
通过我们硕士课程的新设置并提供个性化转换课程，我们希望既能满足本校医学信息学学士学位获得者的学习需求，又能吸引其他（国际）学生和专业人士加入我们的新项目。我们的最终目标是培养出能为该领域做出重大贡献的医学信息学专家。
