title: Kick-starting health informatics careers--a Canadian approach.
abstract: We introduce the Applied Health Informatics Bootcamp. This is an intense, interactive on-site program, augmented by approximately 80 hours of on-line material. The Bootcamp is intended to introduce those with little or no knowledge of Health Informatics (HI) to the nature, key concepts, and applications of this discipline to addressing challenges in the health field. The focus of the program is on Applied Health Informatics (AHI), the discipline addressing the preparation for, and the procurement, deployment, implementation, resourcing, effective usage, and evaluation of informatics solutions in the health system. Although no program of this duration can cover all topics, we target the high profile areas of Health Informatics and point the participants in the direction of broader and deeper explorations.
authors.affiliation: Waterloo Institute for Health Informatics Research (WIHIR), University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Shirley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fenton
authors.forename: H Dominic
authors.initials: HD
authors.lastname: Covvey
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D002321:Career Choice; D003479:Curriculum; D048088:Informatics / Q000193:education; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000193:education*