Lydia Jidkov|Matthew Alexander|P Bark|John Williams|Jonathan Kay|Paul Taylor|Harry Hemingway|Amitava Banerjee
Health informatics competencies in postgraduate medical education and training in the UK: a mixed methods study
University College London|Royal Victoria Infirmary|University College London|Swansea University|Royal College of Physicians|Royal College of Physicians|University College London|University College London|Royal College of Physicians|University College London
objective assess health informatics hi training uk postgraduate medical education across specialties international standards context uk digital health initiatives eg health data research uk national health service digital academy global digital exemplars design mixed methods study uk postgraduate clinician training curricula 71 specialties international hi standards scoping review curricular content analysis expert consultation setting participants scoping literature review pubmed march 2017 informed development contemporary framework hi competency domains doctors national training curricula 71 postgraduate medical specialties obtained uk general medical council analysed seven uk hi experts consulted regarding findings outcomes international medical informatics association imia recommendations biomedical health informatics education used develop framework competency domains number maximum 50 hi competency domains included 71 uk postgraduate medical specialties investigated expert review universal hi competency framework proposed results framework 50 hi competency domains developed using 21 curricula scoping review curricular content analysis expert consultation 71 uk postgraduate medical curricula documents mapped across 29 50 framework domains 21 domains unrepresented curricula mapped 0 child adolescent psychiatry core surgical training 16 chemical pathology paediatric perinatal pathology 50 domains median7 expert consultation found hi competencies universal integrated existing competencies uk clinicians underrepresented current curricula additional universal hi competencies identified including information governance security secondary use data conclusions postgraduate medical education uk neglects hi competencies set international standards key hi competencies need urgently integrated training curricula prepare doctors work increasingly digitised healthcare environments