New Approaches in Teaching Medical Informatics to Medical Students

As technologies of information and communication are integrated incrementally with all facets of everyday life, it is reasonable to expect a penetration into educational procedures as well. This is also true for the case of medical/health informatics. In this paper, we describe our approach to facilitate the provision of online medical informatics modules with all those tools (Moodle) and standards (SCORM, HealthcareLOM) required, so as to allow for a proper electronic provision of our modules. The effort is made against the traditional and ineffective concept of simply converting the classical learning material into its corresponding digital form; it is rather attempted here to fully follow the whole educational process by trying to achieve the educational objectives and learning outcomes in parallel to creating and structuring the digital material. Web 2.0 technologies are also incorporated into this process.