Table 1.
Informal inventory of competencies and curricula developed for specialties related to biomedical and health informatics
| Origin | Year | Target | Title |
| ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) | 1978 | Computer science | Health Computing: Curriculum for an Emerging Profession—Report of the ACM Curriculum Committee on Health Computing Education. ACM '78: Proceedings of the 1978 Annual Conference. http://dl.acm.org |
| AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) | 1998 | Medical students | Medical School Objectives Project: Medical Informatics. http://www.aamc.org |
| IMIA (International Medical Informatics Association) | 2000 | General | Recommendations of IMIA on education in health and medical informatics. http://www.imia.org |
| ANA (American Nursing Association) | 2001 | Nursing | Results of a Delphi study to determine informatics competencies for nurses at four levels of practice. J Nurs Educ 2001;40:303–16. |
| Waterloo (Ontario, Canada) | 2001 | General | Pointing the Way: Competencies and Curricula in Health Informatics. http://www.nihi.ca/hi/ |
| AMIA Education Committee | 2003 | General | Competencies in Informatics |
| Australia | 2004 | General | Australian Health Informatics Educational Framework. http://www.achi.org.au/ |
| STFM (Society of Teachers of Family Medicine) | 2004 | Family medicine | Informatics Learning Goals and Objectives. http://fammed.musc.edu/fmc/data/Informatics.htm |
| ACMI (American College of Medical Informatics) | 2004 | Bioinformatics | Training the Next Generation of Informaticians: The Impact of ‘BISTI’ and Bioinformatics—A Report from the American College of Medical Informatics. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2004;11:167–72. |
| AMIA 10×10 | 2005 to present | General | 10×10 Curriculum and Competencies. http://www.amia.org/education/10x10-courses |
| AMIA Dental Informatics Working Group | 2006 | Dentistry | Background material on informatics competencies. http://www.amia.org/programs/working-groups/dental-informatics |
| MLA (Medical Library Association) | 2006 | Medical librarians | Health Information Science Knowledge and Skills. http://www.mlanet.org/education/platform/skills.html |
| Public Health Informatics (PHI) Competencies Working Group (CDC funded) | 2007 | Public health | Public Health Informatics Competencies. http://www.cdc.gov/InformaticsCompetencies/ |
| COACH (Canadian Health Informatics Association) | 2007 | Health informatics professionals | http://www.coachorg.com/ |
| AMIA | 2008 | Clinical informatics | Core Content for the Subspecialty of Clinical Informatics. AMIA Board of Directors. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2009;16:153–7. |
| CAHIIM (Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management) | 2009 | Health informatics | http://www.cahiim.org/applyaccred_HI_grad.html |
| TIGER (Technology Informatics Guiding Education Reform) | 2009 | Nursing informatics | http://tigercompetencies.pbworks.com/f/TICC_Final.pdf |