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| Learner | Curriculum | Assessment | HIU Educational Resources | Additional Resources |
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| Junior Doctors | Record of In-Training Assessment (RITA) | Foundation curriculum for health informatics (in development) |
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| MRCP Syllabus | MRCP (UK) Examination | MRCP Questions | MRCP(UK) website | |
| Senior Physicians | CPD Curriculum | CPD | A practical guide to achieving clinical effectiveness | CPD website |
| Security and Confidentiality | ||||
| All Doctors | ECDL Syllabus | ECDL | ECDL website | |
| HI = Health Informatics ECDL = European Computer Driving Licence (Basic IT certificate) |
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In addition to existing curricula, we have developed a Draft HI Curriculum that we are using to inform our other educational developments. We do, however, consider health informatics to be a generic subject, fundamental to most clinical processes. We aim to integrate informatics, as much as possible, into existing curricula rather than develop a separate clinical subject.
There are also many external courses available outside the RCP. These may be suited for clinicians who wish to learn more about Health Informatics as a separate discipline.
HIU Educational Resources
Laying the Foundations for Good Medical
Practice
Laying the Foundations for Good Medical Practice: A generic training programme for Senior House Officers was launched on 29th April 2003 by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam Donaldson.
Using LTF brings benefits to patients, junior doctors, tutors and management:
- Benefits to patients:
Junior doctors will gain skills in communication and ethics. Their standard of record-keeping should be much improved with a resulting benefit to patient safety. - Benefits for junior doctors
They will develop many of the generic skills and knowledge required for good medical practice, and be able to plan their future career development. - Benefits for tutors:
Tutors are presented with a clear step-wise programme. If the portfolio is used correctly, they will meet many of the requirements for revalidation laid out in the GMC’s Good Medical Practice for Physicians (and other specialties) - Benefits for management:
The Commission for Health Improvement (CHI) will accept LTF as evidence of training during its reviews. Adoption of practices recommended in LTF will reduce the hospital’s risk profile and result in more accurate data for monitoring purposes.
- More information on content, development and future plans
- Register your interest in contributing to further development
- Order LTF via the RCP publications department
e-learning zone
We are developing an e-learning zone to evaluate electronic tutorials that will complement Laying the Foundations.
A Practical Guide to Achieving Clinical Effectiveness
A practical guide to achieving clinical effectiveness that was originally developed by the Clinical School in Swansea. We are looking for doctors with experience in local clinical effectiveness projects to consult on the guide.
Security and Confidentiality
There is currently no HIU documentation on security and confidentiality. This is because the issues surrounding security and confidentiality are changing rapidly at the moment. One day we might be able to provide a summary of important issues that relate directly to physicians. Meanwhile, however, it is best to look directly at source sites that are regularly updated on the internet. We suggest starting with the following:
- Information Commissioner website (Click on the arrow next to Compliance Advice then look down the list and click on the 'Health Data, Use and Disclosure of' link)
- GMC standards page
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Health and Social Care Act 2001 and DoH explanation
- NHS Information Authority Confidentiality website
MRCP Examination
The MRCP examination is a common membership examination in general medicine (shared by the three Royal College of Physicians of the United Kingdom. We have developed health informatics questions, which have been included into the MRCP question bank.
Draft Health Informatics Curriculum
We have developed a Health Informatics Curriculum based on Learning to Manage Health Information: A Theme for Clinical Education and the NHSIA core informatics competency profiles. The curriculum is currently in draft form to inform other informatics curriculum developers.
- Draft SHO health informatics curriculum
- SHO Curriculum
- Learning to Manage Health Information: A Theme for Clinical Education
- NHSIA core informatics competency profiles
External Courses
We would like to hear from academic organisations running courses in Health Informatics. Particularly part-time or modular courses which would be appropriate for medical professionals.
Some courses are given below; we suggest you use your search engine to find other courses.
These locations offer MSc level courses:
- Centre for Health Informatics and Multiprofessional Education (CHIME)
- City University
- Sowerby Centre for Health Informatics at Newcastle (SCHIN)
- Centre for Health Informatics Swansea
- Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, faculty of medical informatics
- Sheffield University, Department of Information Studies
- University of Central Lancashire
Theses locations offer specific training for doctors:
Updated 5 March, 2009