1. AMIA 10x10 Tips for a Successful Application
Jennifer Kalman, MBA, CPHIMS
Management Analyst
VHA Office of Health Informatics (OHI),
Health Informatics (10A7A) Applied Informatics Division
Workforce Development

2. Learning Objectives Define what the VA AMIA 10x10 program is
Explore what the ideal candidate looks like
Identify best practices on how to submit a successful application

3. Mission
Development of Health IT competencies across ALL healthcare disciplines
Creating a sustainable capacity to support healthcare modernization and improved care delivery through health informatics

4. Current HI Educational Offerings
Workgroups and Committees:
VA Health Informatics Certificate Program (AMIA 10x10)
HI 101 Series
HI 301 Lecture Series
NI Guided Study Group
NI Journal Club
Intro to HC Data Analytics Course (Max. 600 students)
HIS/CAC National Training Program
Field Health Informatics Council
Field Health Informatics Leaders
Health Informatics Online Classroom Course Catalog:

5. VA Health Informatics Certificate Program (AMIA 10x10)

6. VA Health Informatics Certificate Program (AMIA 10x10)
2009 AMIA White paper
Graduate Level Health Informatics Lecture Series
AMIA Partnership for 10x10 Certificate Program

7. VA Health Informatics Certificate Program (AMIA 10x10)
Topics Include:
Fundamentals of Health Informatics
Evidence-based Patient Care
Clinical Workflow Analysis
Process Redesign and Quality Improvement
Human Factors Engineering
Data Standards and Interoperability
Clinical Decision Support
Information System Lifecycle
Leading and Managing Change

8. Course Duration and Composition
Course Logistics:
2 – Six Month Sessions are held each year
8 Modules & Course Project
Course Format:
Voice over PowerPoint video lectures, quizzes, questionnaires and online discussion forums as well as individual activities
Course platform = Moodle
Course work = asynchronous
Most assignments can be completed at times convenient for you!
Average weekly time commitment: hours per week

9. LMS SYSTEM: MOODLE

10. Course Requirements Complete the entire six-month program.
Complete the required lectures on TMS, including post-tests and evaluations.
Complete assigned learning activities and projects on schedule.
Participate in online discussion forums.
Advocate with local leadership for participant to attend one face to face meeting in November at the AMIA Annual Symposium.
Students will be required to complete scheduled homework assignments and projects relevant to the general content areas presented. Assignments are broad-ranging, including activities such as participation in discussion boards, conducting workflow analyses, designing evidence-based decision support tools, writing papers, and completing a health informatics project. Students will be encouraged to choose topics and projects that provide real value to VA as an organization. Students will receive guidance and feedback on assignments from faculty moderators.

11. Is Supervisory Approval Required?
Is Supervisory Approval Required?
This six-month program requires a substantial time commitment from the participants— approximately twelve hours per week.
Most coursework is done on the student’s personal time.
Supervisors agree to:
1. Release participant for online training sessions (percentage of time is determined locally).
2. Support participant’s work on projects.

12. Candidate Selection

13. How Are The Candidates Selected?
Candidates are scored on the basis of the information provided on their application.
The essay questions are particularly important, as the goal is to identify candidates who demonstrate leadership, enthusiasm and a strategic vision for improving healthcare through application of informatics principles and practice.
Consideration is given to how a candidate’s participation in the program will not only support their personal and professional development but also enable them to contribute to VA’s mission and strategic goals.
Involvement in VISN and national level work groups and projects is looked upon favorably as it demonstrates initiative, leadership and systems thinking.
Ideally, we want to have an interdisciplinary and geographically dispersed group in the course, but we do not have any specific criteria or quotas addressing those elements.

14. VA Health Informatics Certificate Program (AMIA 10x10)
The ideal candidate:
Currently serves in a formal or informal leadership role in health informatics (HI)
Can commit to devoting the time required to complete the entire six-month program
Demonstrates devotion to improving patient care and care outcomes through information
APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED:  Now – October 29, 2018
Course Start Date: January 7, 2019
Course End Date:  July 26, 2019

15. What does the Ideal Candidate Look like?
Enrollment is competitive and will be limited to 35 VA staff in a leadership role in health informatics. Leadership can be demonstrated through informal roles, such as project leader or program lead, and is not specific to certain job titles.

16. Candidate Notification

17. Notification of Acceptance
Accepted: You have been formally accepted into the program.
Alternate/Wait-List: You have been accepted but as an alternate (may be placed in a future session if needed).
Not Accepted: Unfortunately we were unable to accommodate you in this session due to the limited number of seats.

18. What if I was Not Accepted?
We encourage all students to re-apply if they were not accepted!
Due to limited number of seats, we regretfully cannot accept every applicant.
Before you re-apply, we encourage you to take advantage of other informatics related training opportunities.
Our team is happy to provide feedback on your application to determine where you can improve for a future application.
Get involved with local, VISN & national committees and projects!

19. Essay Tips Your essay is heavily weighted in our scoring process.
Please do not assume that we are aware of your skill set (i.e. spell out acronyms) Tell us your story!
Focus on sharing a narrative of your skills and education – not a bulleted list of tasks.
Answer each essay question and their sub-parts.
Successful candidates will be able to describe past accomplishments and contributions, current involvement as well as vision and goals for future directions of informatics in VA.
Please limit your response to 300 words or less for each essay question – we want you to be concise and not too brief.
Be sure to check your essays for correct spelling, grammar and punctuation prior to submission.
Remember that the focus of this course is a broad spectrum of informatics concepts and principles – it is not focused on data, data mining, SQL techniques, etc…

20. Informatics Related Training Opportunities
VA Health Informatics Lecture Series (301): found in TMS and is comprised of 41 lectures. This serves as the basis for the 10x10 program:
Health Informatics (101) Modules:
Course Catalog to other Informatics Related Courses:

21. Data Analytics Related Training Opportunities
Introduction to Health Care Data Analytics:
Reporting & Field Analytics Field Training:
VHA’s Field Based Analytics (FBA) Program:
Graduate Level Online Certificate Program in Health Care Data Analytics:

22. Q&A Discussion

23. Link to HI Training Site:
Questions
Link to HI Training Site:
Link to the VA AMIA 10x10 Informational Site:
the Health Informatics mail group: