Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform - TIGER.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While health informatics recommendations on competencies and education serve as highly desirable corridors for designing curricula and courses, they cannot show how the content should be situated in a specific and local context. Therefore, global and local perspectives need to be reconciled in a common framework.

Objectives

The primary aim of this study is therefore to empirically define and validate a framework of globally accepted core competency areas in health informatics and to enrich this framework with exemplar information derived from local educational settings.

Methods

To this end, (i) a survey was deployed and yielded insights from 43 nursing experts from 21 countries worldwide to measure the relevance of the core competency areas, (ii) a workshop

SUBMITTER: Hubner U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193400 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature