Should Degree Programs in Biomedical and Health Informatics be Dedicated or Integrated?

Education in biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) has been established in many countries throughout the world. For degree programs in BMHI we can distinguish between those that are completely stand-alone or dedicated to the discipline vs. those that are integrated within another program. After r...

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Publicado en:Journal of Medical Systems Vol. 41; no. 7; pp. 1 - 8
Autores principales: Haux, Reinhold, Marschollek, Michael, Wolf, Klaus-Hendrik, Zeisberg, Ute
Formato: tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Jul2017
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          Haux, Reinhold
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          Wolf, Klaus-Hendrik
          Zeisberg, Ute
        affil: Peter L. Reichertz Institute for Medical Informatics , University of Braunschweig - Institute of Technology and Hannover Medical School , Muehlenpfordtstr. 23 38106 Braunschweig Germany
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          Biomedical Engineering Education
          Health Informatics Education
          Program Evaluation
          Education Evaluation
      ab: Education in biomedical and health informatics (BMHI) has been established in many countries throughout the world. For degree programs in BMHI we can distinguish between those that are completely stand-alone or dedicated to the discipline vs. those that are integrated within another program. After running integrated degree medical informatics programs at TU Braunschweig for 10 years at the B.Sc. and for 15 years at the M.Sc level, we (1) report about this educational approach, (2) analyze recommendations on, implementations of, and experiences with degree educational programs in BMHI worldwide, (3) summarize our lessons learned with the integrated approach at TU Braunschweig, and (4) suggest an answer to the question, whether degree programs in biomedical and health informatics should be dedicated or integrated. According to our experience at TU Braunschweig and based on our analysis of publications, there is a clear dominance of dedicated degree programs in BMHI. The specialization in medical informatics within a computer science program, as offered at TU Braunschweig, may be a good way of implementing an integrated, informatics-based approach to medical informatics, in particular if a dual degree option can be chosen. The option of curricula leading to double degrees, i.e. in this case to two separate degrees in computer science and in medical informatics might, however, be a better solution.
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