THE GRADUATE TRAINING IN MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCES IN THE ACADEMIC-MEDICAL-CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY-OF-AMSTERDAM

Since its inception in 1987, the 4-year Medical Information Sciences ( MIS) curriculum at the Academic Medical Centre (AMC), Amsterdam has go ne through several major changes. The present curriculum started in 19 94. The course takes 4 years, the first 3 years are programmed in inte grated modules of 7 weeks in duration each. In these modules much atte ntion is given to interactive teaching, problem based learning and pri vate study. Typical for the Amsterdam curriculum is a strong emphasis on the role and significance of data and information in health care an d its management. The authors see information technology per se as aux iliary to this orientation. Presently, about 150 students follow the c ourses. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.