Oral

Developing competencies in health informatics and information technology will be the paramount challenge for all responsible for HIT curricula and credentialing around the world. The focus of these oral presentations is to help define the challenge and opportunity of communicating to the public what HIT professionals are being taught, and how to evaluate what they can actually do once their training is complete.

Session Objectives: 1. Describe process and outcome evaluation for the student learning experience in public health informatics. 2. Define the curriculum features of academic programs offering public health informatics degrees. 3. Identify the challenges and opportunities of developing a graduate program in public health informatics.