The medical informatics curriculum at the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn: new developments in its 5th revision.
We report about new developments in the 5th version of the medical informatics program at the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn, reflect our approaches for the revision and discuss our current curriculum in relationship to other curricula in health informatics and medical informatics. The specialised university curriculum for medical informatics at the University of Heidelberg/School of Technology Heilbronn is one of the oldest educational approaches in the field of medical informatics. During more than 25 years approx. 1000 students graduated. The program belongs to the category of dedicated master programs for medical informatics and is based on the concept of medical informatics as a medical discipline of its own. It covers the total spectrum of medical informatics ranging from information systems in health care, biosignal and medical image processing, medical documentation, to information and knowledge processing in medicine. It is a 4.5 years program with a strong emphasis on the methodological foundations of medical informatics and on practical education in a number of specific laboratories. For the 5th version of the Heidelberg/Heilbronn curriculum on medical informatics, having started at winter semester 1997/98, we hope to have reflected the evolution of medical informatics as a separate discipline, moving one step further towards educating medical informatics, and not 'just' medicine and informatics.
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University of Heidelberg, Department of Medical Informatics, Germany. Reinhold_Haux@ukl.uni-heidelberg.de
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D003479:Curriculum; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*