Charting a New Course: Development and Delivery of a Doctoral Survey Course in Health Informatics

There are both challenges and rewards to creating a new course and in particular introducing allied health professionals to the field of informatics. The authors of this case study poster believe that critical to healthcare delivery is the integration of informatics across the healthcare enterprise. Thus, when in 1998, VCU's School ofAllied Health Professions launched an innovative, interdisciplinary, Internet-based doctoral program we sought to require a health informatics course into the program Students in the program are geographically distributed and represent a wide range of ages and disciplines. The health informatics course is offered during the program's third year. This case study poster will illustrate not only the differences and similarities of the content and delivery of this course to other U.S. graduate-level informatics curricula but also present a variety of lessons learned.