Curriculum recommendations for graduate professional programs in information systems
Communications of the ACM
An analysis of the job market for biomedical computer scientists
ACM-SE 14 Proceedings of the 14th annual Southeast regional conference
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Computing has great potential for impacting favorably the rising costs of health care and many other aspects of the health care delivery system. Application of computers in health care has not kept pace with available technology. One substantial factor in this relative lack of progress is the need for more and better trained health computing professionals. Although a number of graduate and post-doctoral programs do exist, these have had little identifiable impact. A part of this problem is due to the fact that career rewards are lacking because the discipline has not been well defined and there is no concrete professional identity among health computing specialists. The ACM Curriculum Sub-Committee on Health Computing Education was founded in the belief that a model curriculum for health computing could provide the foundation and the needed impetus for acceptance of health computing as a discipline or profession. The group has been working since June, 1977, to establish such a model curriculum, and this paper reports on the curriculum status. The group has evolved a core curriculum and has outlined the four specialty areas, or tracks, in which graduates may work. The core curriculum is described, and the probable career paths and training proposed for each of the tracks are discussed.