title: Enhancing entrepreneurship and professionalism in medical informatics instruction: a collaborative training model.
abstract: This report describes an innovative training program designed to foster entrepreneurship and professionalism in students interested in the field of medical informatics. The course was developed through a private-public interinstitutional collaboration involving four academic institutions, one private firm specializing in health care information management systems, and a philanthropic organization. The program challenged students to serve in multiple roles on multidisciplinary teams and develop an innovative hand-held solution for drug information retrieval. Although the course was technically and behaviorally rigorous and required extensive hands-on experience in a nontraditional learning environment, both students and faculty responded positively.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pharmacy Practice & Department of Economics, University of Missouri-Kansas City, MO, USA. ccarroll@cmh.edu
authors.forename: Cathryn A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Carroll
authors.forename: Walt
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Rychlewski
authors.forename: Marty
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Teat
authors.forename: Darrin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Clawson
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004521:Educational Measurement; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D005178:Faculty; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*; D008923:Missouri; D012985:Software Design; D013334:Students