Course description

Course lay-out

The study Medical Informatics covers the medical, informatics and health information aspects. This course is an introduction course to the four healthcare information courses. The fourth course will elaborate on this aspect. In the second year the course 'registration and classification' will continue with this aspect. The final year of the Bachelor will suite two courses about healthcare information; these two courses are 'between healthcare process & policy' and 'strategic information management'. These courses give knowledge and skills for doing analyses, supporting and optimising of processes in the healthcare by utilization of informatics.

 

The student will be educated in academic skills: presenting and searching literature. The Medical Library will lecture about 'searching on the Internet'. Feedback will be given on exercise A (research of medical informatics articles). All exercises will be returned with feedback. Attention will be paid to give and receive feedback regarding to the presentation skills.

 

Educational goals

• Structure and organization of the Dutch healthcare
• Information systems and information management in healthcare
• Data recording of the patient in favor of patient care, science, management and policy

 

Involved departments

• ADB-ICT
• Clinical Informatics
• Education & Student Affairs
• GP Medical Science
• Medical Library
• Social Medical Science

 

Evaluation

Evaluation of the course and assignments

This course ran parallel with the first course and the third course. This course had to make a connection between the medical oriented courses and the informatics oriented courses. This course was valued 4 ECTS and only scheduled on Thursday mornings, which was not 4 corresponding to the amount of work that had to be done in this course. Because of this students paid less attention to this course in order to pass the other two - parallel - courses. Deadlines of these three courses frequently coincide.

 

There were three themes (Policy & Financing, Hospital Information Systems and Classification & Coding) during the course, for each theme an assignment had to be completed and a week later all the acquired knowledge was examined. On all the three themes the student had to score at least a 5 to pass the course. Additionally; all assignments had to be sufficient. When not adhering to these conditions the student will fail the course. Searching on the Internet is an important part of an academic study. During this course we had to participate in a practical, which had some interesting topics. The second theme was a difficult theme, because a lot of facts had to be learned, while I am better in applying the knowledge in new situations. The third theme caused some problems and I had to redo the exam. Sometimes I paid less attention to this course, because passing the third course resulted in more ECTS.