Foundational Curricula

A survey of needed and existing curricula will be developed, based on preliminary work done by the EU-US Workforce Development Workgroup under the EU-US Memorandum of Understanding and Roadmap. This completed survey will be circulated for comments in various professional organisations and national education administration bodies before final publication. The aim of the task is to identify generic, country-independent competences from country-dependent components and to support the education in both areas in order to further the mobility of the health care work force. From this, we will be able to both develop a foundational set of basic eHealth curricula, and formulate a plan to integrate country-dependent and -independent educational and knowledge needs into further iterations. Finally, existing curricula from Europe and United States and additional competences based on our gap analysis performed in work package 2 will be used as input to form a comprehensive set of foundational curricula for different actors in the healthcare field. This curricula will be vetted, tested and validated amongst our extended network of stakeholders, educators, experts and community members in the eHealth industry.