Educating 10,000 informaticians by 2010: The AMIA 10 × 10 program

ObjectivesThere is an increasing need for a larger and better trained workforce in medical informatics. The goal of the American Medical Informatics Association 10 × 10 program is to educate 10,000 clinicians in medical informatics by the year 2010.MethodsWe adapted an on-line introductory graduate course toward this goal. It was evaluated using Likert-scale and open-ended questions.ResultsThe course was successfully implemented and attracted 51 individuals, 44 of whom completed it. The evaluation was generally positive, with all but one Likert-scale above 4.0 on a 1-to-5 scale.ConclusionsWe successfully adapted an introductory medical informatics course to a larger audience. The evaluation showed it was received positively and we have further plans to scale it to an even larger audience to meet the goals of the 10 × 10 program.