Medical Informatics Education: Challenges and opportunities for Medical Universities in Bulgaria

Kiril Boyanov, Petko Ruskov

Abstract

In information society medical doctors have to use the power of information technology and systems to facilitate safe and high quality care. Electronic health information systems provide the ability to accomplish competently track tasks and communicate with all stakeholders. The competences concerning access, retrieval and analysis of medical and administrative data are important components for the work of every physician and can be taught in universities.

In this paper we describe the existing approaches regarding medical informatics education and present an example for a curriculum. The main goal of the paper is to provoke an open discussion about the needs, opportunities and resources for feasible introduction of Medical Informatics education in the Bulgarian medical universities.