Implementing Informatics Competencies in Undergraduate Medical Education

Medicine and medical education are changing, as rapid changes in technology occur. In Canada, two organizations—the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) and Canada Health Infoway (Infoway) recognized a need to prepare the next generation of physicians to practice in a digitally enabled practice setting. In response to recommendations from a national academic eHealth leadership committee, these organizations partnered on an initiative to “train the trainers” by providing medical educators with tools for teaching eHealth concepts to physician trainees. This chapter presents the eHealth content that was initially delivered through live accredited educational webinar workshops, and was later published in an online eHealth Workshop Toolkit Collection, available on the AFMC website. The AFMC-Infoway partnership succeeded in producing an openly accessible collection of online eHealth educational resources. However, considerable work is required going forward in the domains of advocacy, curriculum development, assessment, training, and the ongoing engagement of key stakeholder groups.