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Undergraduate health informatics education is paramount to the continuous expansion of the informatics field. Education in health informatics has predominantly focused on master’s and doctoral-level education, as well as clinical subspecialty training. Currently, there are core competencies for graduate health informatics education that can be used as guidance for existing programs revising their curricula or emerging programs starting a new program. However, there is limited knowledge around the structure and content of undergraduate health informatics education. In this chapter, we will highlight the gap in knowledge, summarize the need for undergraduate structure, discuss foundational domains, using Miller’s Pyramid as adapted for health informatics, and provide recommendations on core concepts for undergraduate health informatics education.
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Khairat, S., Feldman, S.S. (2020). Undergraduate Health Informatics Education. In: Berner, E.S. (eds) Informatics Education in Healthcare. Health Informatics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53813-2_6
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