title: Switzerland: new medical informatics curriculum.
abstract: Swiss Society for Medical Informatics (SSMI) started to build a postgraduate curriculum in medical informatics a year ago. The aim is to build a curriculum with different modules allowing the healthcare professionals to follow individual path in order to fulfill their objectives. The professionals who could benefit from the curriculum are physicians, nurses, medical assistants, computer specialists in the healthcare domain. Different levels of certificates or diplomas will be given depending on the number of modules taken and the professional background. Modules can be taken in different ways: universities, hospitals, distance learning.... The kickoff meeting for the leading group of this curriculum chaired by Dr Denz from Zurich was held on June 5 and 6 1998 was Swiss Nursing informatics group is active in this field. Working Group 5 (WG5) "Nursing Informatics in Europe" is supporting countries efforts in building nursing informatics curriculum. Promoting links between specialists in this domain in different countries. Selecting relevant Websites to be used. Disseminating information to country members of WG5.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Informatics Europe Novasys S.A., Lausanne. patrick.weber@novasys.ch
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Weber
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004506:Education, Nursing; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D013557:Switzerland