Dattakumar Ambica, Gray Kathleen, Henderson Kerryn-Butler, Maeder Anthony, Chenery Helen
Health and Biomedical Informatics Research Unit, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2012;178:33-8.
This paper reports on a national study of the present approaches in Australian tertiary education, to preparing future clinical health professionals to work competently in an increasingly e-health enabled healthcare sector. The argument for increasing clinical health professionals' knowledge about e-health and health informatics has been advanced repeatedly over past decades in Australia and elsewhere. However, peer-reviewed accounts of good practice in implementing and evaluating e-health education in health profession degrees anywhere are scarce. Our study reports on surveying approximately 100 degree coordinators in 40 clinical health professions in 30 universities across Australia. It finds that currently, teaching and assessment of future clinical health professionals does not ensure that Australia will have a clinical workforce that is adequately professionally empowered to work with e-health. This paper provides important baseline data for planning improvements to e-health education for Australia's future clinical health professionals.
本文报道了一项关于澳大利亚高等教育现状的全国性研究，该研究旨在培养未来的临床健康专业人员，使其能够在日益电子化的医疗保健领域胜任工作。在过去几十年里，澳大利亚和其他地方不断有人提出，需要增加临床健康专业人员关于电子健康和健康信息学的知识。然而，在任何地方，关于在健康专业学位中实施和评估电子健康教育的良好实践的同行评审报告都很少。我们的研究报告了对澳大利亚30所大学40个临床健康专业的约100名学位协调员进行的调查。研究发现，目前，对未来临床健康专业人员的教学和评估并不能确保澳大利亚拥有一支具备充分专业能力来使用电子健康的临床劳动力队伍。本文为规划澳大利亚未来临床健康专业人员的电子健康教育改进提供了重要的基础数据。
