Working as a Medical Informatician

CAPURRO, DANIEL; GRAINGER, REBECCA; LUNA, DANIEL ROBERTO

The Health Information Workforce

Springer

Año: 2022; p. 315 - 319

Medical professionals frequently have to forge their own paths to achieveproficiency and learn the core components of clinical informatics, understood as the?application of informatics and information technology to deliver healthcare services?[American Medical Informatics Association (Clinical informatics. 2021.https://www.amia.org/applications-informatics/clinical-informatics)].In this chapter, we present the personal stories of three medical doctors, from different parts ofthe world, and what motivated, guided, and inspired their journey. Several commonthemes emerge. The first is self-directed learning, strong mentorship, and the needfor the on-going building of communities of practices to share experiences andknowledge. Secondly, there is strong desire to formalise learning during our careers,and we found different ways to achieve this. Finally, health informatics is moreabout health, clinicians, healthcare and patients and less about informatics, andclinical informatics sits at the core of clinical care. Although the routes and timingof these journeys varied, resonating throughout is a deep desire to impact patients?lives and improve the ways we provide healthcare.Keywords Case study · Clinical informatics · Chief Medical