title: Ten years of medical informatics education experience at the Faculty of Medicine in Sarajevo.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The medical informatics as the separate medical discipline very quickly gets developed, both in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In our country, the medical informatics is a separate subject for the last ten years, regarding to the Medical curriculum at the biomedical faculties in Bosnia and Herzegovina is in accordance with the project of the education related to Bologna declaration and the project EURO MEDICINA. This year the Chair of the Medical Informatics of the Medical Faculty in Sarajevo celebrates ten years of its existence.
  
  
  METHODS
  By the descriptive method of the research which included the questionnaire of about 400 students of the biomedical faculties, we established the attitudes and we took into consideration opinions of the students of these faculties about the validity of the contents of the subject of the medical informatics, the availability of the adoption of the material by the theoretical and practical performance of the teaching process and the suggestions and recommendations of the students about the contents that have to be throwned out from the curriculum and the teaching material that needs to be included.
  
  
  METHODS
  The research was performed using the separate questionnaire pattern data carriers with the defined characteristics for the quality assessment of the performed course. The total attitude of the assessed students speaks about dominantly expressed satisfaction with the majority of the parameters that are important for assessment of the quality and the tuition contents that was evaluated during the questionnaire. The results are shown in the tables and graphs, and they are describing the program of the tuition and the contents of the methodical units, and the system of the examination for the students using the method of "multiple choice".
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The education in the field of the medical informatics is based at the concept which is used in the developed countries of the world, and according the recommendations of the working groups of the European and world association of the medical informatics. The theoretical and practical teaching and training performance in the wholeness is performed by use of the computer equipment, and the final knowledge check of the students also is performed using the Data Base Management System MSAccess specifically designed to cover full teaching and training material by using questions set in the data base which encircled nearly 1500 questions combinations.
authors.affiliation: Medical Faculty, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. imasic@utic.net.ba
authors.forename: Izet
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masic
authors.forename: Emina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pasic
authors.forename: Haris
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pandza
authors.forename: Mensura
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kudumovi
mesh_terms: D017522:Bosnia and Herzegovina; D003479:Curriculum; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires