1. Health Informatics Education in the UK
Dr Paul Taylor
UCL 1

3. Learning to Manage Health Information
National framework for health informatics education for clinical professions covering:
Protection of Individuals & Organisations
Data, Information & Knowledge
Communication & Information Transfer
Health & Care Records
The Language of Health: Clinical Coding & Terminology
Clinical Systems & Applications
eHealth: the Future Direction of Clinical Care

4. Level A: Undergraduate
Level B: Postgraduate or Continuing Professional Development
Level C: Clinical and related management development

5. eICE: embedding informatics in clinical education
Free online learning resources covering the following themes:
Introduction to Information Governance
Access to Information and Information Sharing in the NHS
The Importance of Good Clinical Record Keeping
The Language of Health: Clinical Coding and Terminology
Clinical Information Systems
eHealth: the Future Direction
Patient Safety and Health IT

6. eICE: embedding informatics in clinical education
This elearning is accredited for CPD points by:
Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Royal College of Nursing
College of Radiographers
many small bodies
Also approved by UKCHIP

7. GMC: Outcomes from medical education
19. Use information effectively in a medical context
(a) Keep accurate, legible and complete clinical records
(b) Make effective use of computers and other information systems …
(c) Keep to the requirements of confidentiality and data protection legislation …
(d) Access information sources and use the information in relation to patient care …
(e) Apply the principles, method and knowledge of health informatics to medical practice

8. PATIENT CENTRED LEARNING, STUDENT CENTRED LEARNING
Year 1 - Fundamentals of clinical science 1
Year 2 - Fundamentals of clinical science 2
Year 3 - Scientific method in depth ( iBSc )
Year 4 – Integrated clinical care
UCL MBBS programme
Year 5 - Life cycle
PATIENT CENTRED LEARNING, STUDENT CENTRED LEARNING
VERTICALLY
ORGANISED MODULES
OVERARCHING THEMES
PROGRESSION
Year 6 - Preparation for practice
Assessment
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I imagine they will see this slide lots in the intro week.
This is just to point out the vertical modules running through every year.
CHECK DIAGRAM IS UP TO DATE
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Foundation Programme 8

9. Overview of teaching sessions
Year 1 Introduction to e-Health
Year 2 Confidentiality and data protection
Year 4 Recording your consultations
Year 5 Making clinical decisions
Year 6 Empowering patients and doctors
Go through the gist of each of these and why they are important 9

10. Reflections
Is it a good idea to have a dedicated Health Informatics module?
Pros:
We ‘sort of’ control teaching
GMC objectives met
Efficient use of our time
Cons:
Not connected with students’ focus
Hard to achieve practical outcomes
Risk of being undermined

11. Other UK initiatives UG level:
elements of HI in Medical, Nursing, Physiotherapy & Radiography training
failed attempts to establish standalone BSc
M level:
some successful programmes
Health Informatics specialism in the Graduate Management Training Programme
proposal to include Health Informatics in the Clinical Scientist Training Programme