Ireland M, Brown T, Byrne K, McPherson J, Swinkels W
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Int J Med Inform. 1998 Jun;50(1-3):77-80. doi: 10.1016/s1386-5056(98)00075-6.
At the University of Newcastle, the 5-year undergraduate programme in Medicine has been developed as a problem-based, self-directed, fully integrated curriculum. Curricular integration involves not only the basic and clinical sciences, but also population medicine, critical reasoning and the development of a broad range of professional skills. Medical informatics has been seen as an increasingly important professional skill and the integrated nature of the curriculum has provided an appropriate setting for the introduction and continuing development of this component of the curriculum. Over the last 3 years this component has been developed to be incorporated into the curriculum for the health sciences within the faculty, becoming health informatics. Informatics for undergraduate students in medicine and allied health professions must be developed as a relevant and useful component of the curriculum.
在纽卡斯尔大学，医学五年制本科课程已发展成为基于问题、自主导向且完全整合的课程体系。课程整合不仅涵盖基础科学和临床科学，还包括群体医学、批判性推理以及广泛专业技能的培养。医学信息学已被视为一项日益重要的专业技能，而课程的整合性质为该课程组成部分的引入和持续发展提供了合适的环境。在过去三年中，这一组成部分已得到发展，被纳入该学院健康科学课程体系，成为健康信息学。针对医学及相关健康专业本科生的信息学必须发展成为课程中相关且实用的组成部分。
