A curricula-based comparison of biomedical and health informatics programs in the USA.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The field of Biomedical and Health Informatics (BMHI) continues to define itself, and there are many educational programs offering 'informatics' degrees with varied foci. The goal of this study was to develop a scheme for systematic comparison of programs across the entire BMHI spectrum and to identify commonalities among informatics curricula.

Design

Guided by several published competency sets, a grounded theory approach was used to develop a program/curricula categorization scheme based on the descriptions of 636 courses offered by 73 public health, nursing, health, medical, and bioinformatics programs in the USA. The scheme was then used to compare the programs in the aforementioned five informatics disciplines.

Results

The authors developed a Course-Base

SUBMITTER: Kampov-Polevoi J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3116256 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature