title: Health and medical informatics competencies: call to participate in updating the IMIA recommendations.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  On behalf of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), its Working Group 1 (WG1) addresses health and medical informatics education.
  
  
  METHODS
  As part of its mission, WG1 developed recommendations for competencies, describing a three-dimension framework and defining learning outcomes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Officially approved by IMIA in 1999, the recommendations have been translated into seven languages. In 2001, WG1 charged a small group with updating the recommendations and consider the work undertaken by others to develop competencies. Additional work underway in support of the recommendations includes a literature review to help extract the fundamental competencies from the recommendations. To ensure the highest quality of input in the updated recommendations, WG1 is issuing a call for participation to the international informatics community.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Further work with the competencies will result in updated IMIA guidelines. These are expected to support the creation of a virtual university for health and medical informatics.
authors.forename: Judith V
authors.initials: JV
authors.lastname: Douglas
authors.forename: Evelyn J S
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Hovenga
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards*