title: Education and training in health informatics. The IT EDUCTRA Project.
abstract: In this contribution the AIM project EDUCTRA and the Telematics Applications Programme IT-EDUCTRA will be described. EDUCTRA has as its aim to investigate what gaps in knowledge health professionals have about health informatics and to provide educational material to fill these gaps. It was believed that a basic understanding of health informatics was present and that educational material should only cover the knowledge necessary for appreciating the products of the AIM programme. It appeared that the knowledge with respect to health informatics was deplorable. Guidelines for curricula were developed to change the situation. In IT-EDUCTRA the necessary course material will be developed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hasman
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D009426:Netherlands; D013664:Teaching Materials