DEVELOPMENT HISTORY AND THE CURRENT STATE OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING IN HEALTH INFORMATICS IN CANADA
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https://doi.org/10.24919/2413-2039.10/42.186894Keywords:
professional education, health informatics, speciality, professional, informatization, CanadaAbstract
MUKAN Nataliya – PhD hab. (Education), Professor of Pedagogy and Innovative Education Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12 Stepan Bandera Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine
E-mail address: nataliya.v.mukan@lpnu.ua
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4396-3408
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KOBRYN Nadiya – Postgraduate student of Pedagogy and Innovative Education Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12 Stepan Bandera Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine
E-mail address: nadiia.z.kobryn@lpnu.ua
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1960-1212
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ZAPOTICHNA Mariya – Postgraduate student of Pedagogy and Innovative Education Department, Lviv Polytechnic National University, 12 Stepan Bandera Str., Lviv, 79013, Ukraine
E-mail address: zapotichnam@gmail.com
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1504-9136
To cite this article: Mukan, N., Kobryn, N., & Zapotichna, M. (2020). Development history and the current state of professional training in health informatics in Canada. Human Studies. Series of Pedagogy, 10/42, 62‒75. doi: https://doi.org/10.24919/2413-2039.10/42.186894
Article history
Received: November 21, 2019
Received in revised form: December 10, 2019
Accepted: March 11, 2020
Available online: April 28, 2020
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The article studies the history and the current state of the professional training in health informatics in Canada. The specifics of healthcare informatization in Canada as a precondition for its formation are analyzed. At its initial stages, the computer technology was implemented into the provincial and territorial healthcare institutions slowly and unevenly. The computerization policy was decentralized, and this did not promote an effective medical information exchange. Thus, at the beginning of the 2000s, Canada set course for the centralized healthcare informatization. It required a qualified workforce and became a catalyst for the development of professional training in health informatics in Canada.
A retrospective analysis of the professional training in health informatics development in Canada is conducted. The research reveals that in its development professional training in health informatics has gone through the pre-institutional phase (the 1960s – 1980), which laid the basis for the appearance and further development of professional training in health informatics, and the institutional phase (1981 – till present time), when it began to be implemented into the Canadian higher educational institutions. The characteristic features of the institutional phase include the rise of health informatics as an academic speciality; the conceptualization of professional training in health informatics; the rapid increase in the number of health informatics professional programs in the mid 2000s; the unification of methodological, scientific framework for training health informatics professionals.
The current state of the professional training in health informatics in Canada is studied. It is concluded that the Canadian system of the health informatics professional training is built on the principles of degree education and life-long learning. The educational process is organized in such a way that future health informatics professionals can receive a credential at different levels of the higher education, in particular a health informatics diploma or certificate in the non-degree granting institutions and Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD degrees at universities. The analysis of the professional training content in health informatics enables to state that its development depends on the level of the higher education and is characterized by various combinations of academic disciplines in the health informatics curriculum within three knowledge domains – information sciences, health sciences, and management.
Acknowledgments. Sincere thanks to Professor Mariya Chepil, the Head of General Pedagogy and Preschool Education Department of Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University.
Funding. The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
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