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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 139-143Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocac209
Keywords
undergraduate medical education; medical school; informatics education; applied health informatics; clinical informatics; curriculum
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- National Institute of Health [5T32-CA251063-02]
- Penn HealthX student organization - Roderick T. Wong fund
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Expansive growth in health information technology has changed medicine significantly, but improvements in healthcare delivery have not been fully realized. Bridging this gap requires healthcare professionals with expertise in clinical informatics at all levels.
Expansive growth in the use of health information technology (HIT) has dramatically altered medicine without translating to fully realized improvements in healthcare delivery. Bridging this divide will require healthcare professionals with all levels of expertise in clinical informatics. However, due to scarce opportunities for exposure and training in informatics, medical students remain an underdeveloped source of potential informaticists. To address this gap, our institution developed and implemented a 5-tiered clinical informatics curriculum at the undergraduate medical education level: (1) a practical orientation to HIT for rising clerkship students; (2) an elective for junior students; (3) an elective for senior students; (4) a longitudinal area of concentration; and (5) a yearlong predoctoral fellowship in operational informatics at the health system level. Most students found these offerings valuable for their training and professional development. We share lessons and recommendations for medical schools and health systems looking to implement similar opportunities.
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