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Title:
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A COMPETENCE BASED MSC IN HEALTH INFORMATICS FOR RWANDA |
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Author(s):
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Frank Verbeke, Graham Wright, Marc Nyssen |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-53-1 |
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Editors:
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Mário Macedo |
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Year:
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2016 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Education, Medical Graduate, Teaching, Curriculum, Knowledge |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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27 |
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Last Page:
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33 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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A MSc in Health Informatics program (MSc HI) has been running at the Regional e-Health Center of Excellence of Rwanda (REHCE) since 2011. A review of the program was ordered in February 2014, when 2 cohorts of students had completed the post-graduate certificate and diploma courses and most of them had started preparatory activity for their master thesis. The study developed a method for mapping course content on health informatics competences and knowledge units, enabling identification and measurement of knowledge gaps and content redundancy. Using this method, the analysis of regulatory and program documents combined with stakeholder interviews demonstrated that the existing MSc HI curriculum did not completely address the needs of the Rwandan health sector and teaching strategies did not always match students expectations. Based on a detailed Rwandan health informatics needs assessment, IMIAs Recommendations on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics and the IMIA Health Informatics Knowledge Base, a new curriculum was developed, providing a better match with the specifics of healthcare in the Central African region. The new curriculum has been put into practice in the 2014/2015 academic year and options for regional extension of the program to Eastern DRC (Bukavu) and Burundi (Bujumbura) are being investigated. |
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