IMIA learning
objectives, and primary sites of trainees’ exposure
in the curriculum.
+Indicates primary
role in achieving the objective.
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Practica+ |
Seminar+ |
Elective Enabling |
| Curriculum Objective
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Application |
Data
Information Knowledge |
Decision |
Evaluation |
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| 1. Methodology and Technology for the
Processing of Data, Information and Knowledge in Medicine and Health
Care
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| 1.1a Reasons for the necessity of systematically
processing data, information and knowledge in medicine and health
care
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X
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X
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| 1.1b Benefits and current constraints of
using information and communication technology in medicine and health
care
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X
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X
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| 1.1c Value of high quality data for successful
patient and institutional management
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X
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X
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X
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| 1.1d Need for and organizational information
strategy and trained personnel
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X
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X
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| *1.1e Information habits of health professionals
and consumers
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X
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X
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| *1.1f Health information resources
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X
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| *1.1g Ethical issues in informatics and
informatics research
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X
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| 1.2 Efficient and responsible use of information
processing tools, to support health care professionals' practice
and their decision making
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X
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X
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| 1.3a General characteristics of health information
management systems
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X
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X
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| 1.3b Management of information systems in
health care
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X
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X
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| 1.3c Architectures and examples of health
information systems, especially hospital information systems, office/practice
information systems. To support health care professionals and managers
of health care institutions
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X
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X
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X
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| 1.3d Architectures and examples of information
systems to support patients and the public
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X
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X
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X
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| 1.3e Architectures and examples of information
systems to support policy makers and managers of community/district/regional
health care services
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X
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X
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X
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| 1.4 Use of application software for documentation,
personal communication including Internet access, for publication
and basic statistics
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X
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X
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| 1.5 Information literacy; library classification
and systematic health related terminologies and their coding; literature
retrieval methods
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X
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| 1.6a Appropriate documentation and health
data management principles including ability to use health and medical
coding systems
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X
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| 1.6b Construction of health and medical
coding systems and their representation principles
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X
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| 1.7 Structure, design and analysis principles
of the health record including notions of data quality, minimum data
sets, general applications of the electronic health record
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X
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| 1.8a Appropriate decision making, using
and constructing guidelines and critical paths
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X
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| 1.8b Constructing tools for decision support
and their application to patient management, acquisition, representation
and engineering of medical knowledge
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X
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| 1.9 Principles of practice evaluation and
evidence based practice
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X
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X
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| 1.10 Health telematics approaches, electronic
commerce in health
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X
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X
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| 1.11 Data analysis using primary and secondary
data sources, analysis of business (operational) processes, biostatistics
and epidemiology
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X
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| 1.12 Medical signal processing
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X
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| 1.13 Medical image processing
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X
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| 1.14 Bioinformatics (optional)
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X
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X
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| 1.15 Medical physics, including radiotherapy
(optional)
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X
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| 1.16 Medical robotics (optional)
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X
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| 1.17 Biomedical modeling (optional)
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X
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X
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X
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| 1.18 Ethical issues including accountability
of health care providers and managers and A11HMI specialists and
the confidentiality, privacy and scrutiny of patient data
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X
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X
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X
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| 1.19 Standards in health and medical informatics
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X
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X
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| 1.20 Informatics methods and tools to support
education (including flexible and distance learning), use of relevant
educational technologies, including Internet and World Wide Web
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X
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X
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| 2 Medicine, Health and Biosciences, Health
System Organization
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| 2.1 Fundamentals of human functioning and
biosciences (anatomy, physiology, microbiology and clinical disciplines
such as internal medicine, surgery, etc.)
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| 2.2 Fundamentals of what constitutes health,
from physiological, sociological, psychological, nutritional, emotional,
environmental, cultural, spiritual perspectives and its assessment
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| 2.3 Diagnostic and therapeutic strategies
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X
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| 2.4 Organization of the health system
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| 2.5 Health administration, health economics,
health quality and resource management, public health services and
outcome measurement
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X
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| *2.6 Fundamentals of informatics research
theory and practice
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X
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| *2.7 Fundamentals of the informatics research
and development communities
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X
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| 3 Informatics/Computer Science, Mathematics,
Biometry
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| 3.1 Basic informatics terminology like data,
information, knowledge, hardware, software, computer, networks, information
systems, information systems management
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X
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| 3.2 Using personal computers. Text processing
and spread sheet software, easy-to-use database management systems
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| 3.3 Ability to communicate electronically,
including electronic data exchange, with other health care professionals
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| 3.4 Methods of practical informatics/computer
science, especially on programming languages, software engineering,
databases, database management systems, information and system modeling
tools, information systems theory and practice, decision support,
knowledge engineering, (concept) representation and acquisition,
networking, telecommunications, general issues concerning the human-computer
interface, cognitive aspects of information processing
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X
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| 3.5 Methods of informatics/computer science
theories
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X
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X
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| 3.6 Methods of informatics/computer science
technologies including virtual reality, multimedia
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X
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| 3.7 Change management principles and terminology
and methodology of project management
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| 3.8 Mathematics: algebra, analysis, logic,
numerical mathematics, probability theory and statistics
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X
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| 3.9 Biometry, including study design, evaluation
methods
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