Development Strategies in Medical Education (Mar 2020)
Design a training content of Health Information Technology field
Abstract
Introduction: Regarding the role of the lesson plan on the quality of the internship course and the characteristics of the health information technology field, such as being new, interdisciplinary, and positioning in the field of health care services, researchers were looking to the viewpoint of the faculty members about the contents of the internship course of health information technology as a model. Methods: This qualitative study was conducted in 2016 using the nominal group method and Delphi technique. Sampling was done in the nominal group (7 person) and Delphi (38 person) based on objective sampling. The nominal group method was performed in 17session and the Delphi technique was performed in two round. Analysis was performed using SPSS16 software. Results: Based on the findings of this study, the first course of internship focused on the hospital's health information management and includes 16 activities. For the second course, coding and statistics training has nine activities. The third course of internships has six activities related to the management of clinical information systems, and the fourth course of internship focusing on IT skills and has seven activities. Conclusion: Considering that internship training plays an important role in educating health IT students, studying, designing and implementing a lesson plan can have a significant impact on the quality of this course. Therefore, the authorities must, in determining the content of the training course, have full supervision in implementing the lesson plan.
