title: Medical education and role of medical informatics.
abstract: Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), as developing country in transition, has to shift from traditional ways of learning to the transformation of the university education in accordance with Bologna process and educational standards in European Union. In the light of these changes authors conducted research at bio-medical faculties in Sarajevo in order to address issues of the education of future physicians and especially role of medical informatics in their under and post graduate studies and continuous medical education. As per given results in this study, current quality of medical education at biomedical faculties, University of Sarajevo, is unsatisfactory due to several reasons and some among others are those traditionally seen as "computer literacy". Problems are determined and recommendations are given for decision makers to support transformation of BiH medical educational system to have physicians, dentists, pharmacists and nurses who possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to be competent in medical informatics if they wish to incorporate into their practices systematic approaches for promoting and maintaining the health of defined populations.
authors.affiliation: Cathedra for Medical Informatics, Medical Faculty, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. imasic@lol.ba
authors.forename: Izet
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masic
authors.forename: Ahmed
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Novo
authors.forename: Selim
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Toromanovic
authors.forename: Almir
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dzananovic
authors.forename: Zlatan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Masic
authors.forename: Alisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Piralic
authors.forename: Sejla
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Deljkovic
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008490:Medical Informatics; D013337:Students, Medical; D015022:Yugoslavia