title: Prospects of medical informatics education in Greece: can we bridge the gap?
abstract: Medical Informatics education is a complex task,, since it aims in educating inhomogeneous groups of people coming from different disciplines. In Greece, recently considerable advancements in the medical informatics education field are made. These advancements aim in bridging gaps in various areas of MI users interactions. In particular, an overview of the strategy of the Greek ministry of education shall be given, some examples of MI related educational programs shall be referred to, and finally the MI educational structure used in the Aristotelian University shall be presented in detail, laying out the strategy of this University for bridging various types of gaps.
authors.affiliation: Aristotelian University, Medical School, Lab of Medical Informatics, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, Greece. nicmag@med.auth.gr
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Maglaveras
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pappas
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D006115:Greece; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*