THE IMIA WG1 DATABASE ON HEALTH AND MEDICAL INFORMATICS PROGRAMS AND COURSES - A CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Working Group 1 on health and medical informatics education of the Int ernational Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has established a WW W site (http: // ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de / similar to d16) to provide up-to-date information about its work. The core of the site is an und erlying database providing information on health and medical informati cs (HMI) programs and courses worldwide. To be able to have a database of high quality and value we encourage all teachers and institutions to submit information about courses and programs on HMI education offe red and to set pointers to their own WWW sites. In addition, a mailing list was installed to facilitate communication between all persons in terested in HMI education. For subscription a message has to be sent t o ''listserv@listserv.net''. The body of the message should read ''SUB SCRIBE IMIA-WG1''. Messages to the IMIA WG1 list have to be sent to '' imia-wg1@urzinfo.urz.uni-heidelberg.de''.