TY - GEN
T1 - Clinical Informatics Board Specialty Certification for Physicians
T2 - 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics, MEDINFO 2015
AU - Gundlapalli, Adi V.
AU - Gundlapalli, Aditya V.
AU - Greaves, William W.
AU - Kesler, Denece
AU - Murray, Peter
AU - Safran, Charles
AU - Lehmann, Christoph U.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Clinical informatics workforce development is a high priority for medicine. Professional board certification for physicians is an important tool to demonstrating excellence. The recent recognition of clinical informatics as a subspecialty board in the U.S. has generated interest and excitement among the U.S. informatics community. To determine the extent of similar programs in countries around the world, we performed literature searches with relevant keywords and internet searches of websites of informatics societies around the world for mentions or descriptions of certifications and reviewed publicly available sources. The U.S. certification was prominent in the recent published literature. Germany and Belgium have long-standing certifications with South Korea and Sri Lanka considering similar programs. This is the first global view of clinical informatics board certification for physicians. Training and certification for non-physician informatics professionals in allied areas are widespread. Official recognition and certification for physicians and all informatics professionals represents a key component of capacity building and a means of addressing the shortage of a skilled informatics workforce. Wider adoption of certification programs may further attracting talent and accelerate growth of the field.
AB - Clinical informatics workforce development is a high priority for medicine. Professional board certification for physicians is an important tool to demonstrating excellence. The recent recognition of clinical informatics as a subspecialty board in the U.S. has generated interest and excitement among the U.S. informatics community. To determine the extent of similar programs in countries around the world, we performed literature searches with relevant keywords and internet searches of websites of informatics societies around the world for mentions or descriptions of certifications and reviewed publicly available sources. The U.S. certification was prominent in the recent published literature. Germany and Belgium have long-standing certifications with South Korea and Sri Lanka considering similar programs. This is the first global view of clinical informatics board certification for physicians. Training and certification for non-physician informatics professionals in allied areas are widespread. Official recognition and certification for physicians and all informatics professionals represents a key component of capacity building and a means of addressing the shortage of a skilled informatics workforce. Wider adoption of certification programs may further attracting talent and accelerate growth of the field.
KW - board certification
KW - Clinical informatics
KW - informatics workforce
KW - physicians
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U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-501
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-564-7-501
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84952002135
SN - 9781614995630
VL - 216
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 501
EP - 505
BT - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
PB - IOS Press
Y2 - 19 August 2015 through 23 August 2015
ER -