Community engagement and outreach as curricular and pedagogical tools for consortial delivery of health informatics curricula. (3rd January 2012)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jacko, Julie A.; Johnson, Layne M.; Adam, Terrence J.; Ali, Adel L.; Chan, Daniel; Kuang, Rui; Nelson, Andrew F.; Watters, Amy; Westra, Bonnie; Fauchald, Sally; Potthoff, Sandra; Witrak, Marty
• Is Part Of: International journal of information and operations management education. Volume 4:Number 3/4(2011)
• Page Start: 284
• Page End: 308
• Publication Date: 2012-01-03
• Subjects: health informatics -- curriculum -- pedagogy -- learning -- University Partnership for Health Informatics -- UP-HI -- ONC -- health information technology -- public health informatics; Continuing education -- Periodicals; Information organization -- Periodicals; Operations research -- Periodicals; Education -- Research -- Periodicals; 025.00711
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2303

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to identify and characterise two grand challenges in the consortial delivery of health informatics curricula: (a) challenges of curriculum and pedagogy and (b) challenges of community engagement. We discovered that we could broadly depict the first challenge along four dimensions and the second challenge along six dimensions. Solutions to these challenges are provided along with a depiction of how the solutions have been successfully implemented in the University Partnership for Health Informatics, a university-based training programme funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.