One of the missions of the Office of Computers in Medical Education is to facilitate learning the skills of information management through the use of computers. This proposal serves as a planning document for implementing and evaluating the medical informatics skills of the students. The objective is to train medical students as users of technology rather than to teach the science of Medical Informatics. The Medical Informatics curriculum is designed to be merged imperceptibly with the curriculum of the Medical School, i.e., it will be embedded in the existing courses. The proposed plan ensures that the use of computers will be part of the students' daily work routine.
Resources are limited.
At present, we do not have sufficient resources to teach Medical Informatics in a formal way to each class. Hence, we have to use existing resources efficiently. The responsibility for learning the Informatics skills will be left to the students after appropriate resources for learning are made available. Evaluation is required. Each student would be required to demonstrate competency in specific skills before graduating.