Last orders – get your applications in by the end of August and you can then embark on one-three years of untrammelled curiosity, excitement and edification.

We still have a few places left for applications to our MSc in Health Informatics. Applications accepted up until the end of August 2005.
 
MSc in Health Informatics
 
This part-time distance learning programme provides an opportunity for
healthcare professionals, managers, librarians and IT professionals working within
healthcare, to develop key skills and knowledge in health informatics.
 
As well as the core modules below, students also take a specialist module
related to their own professional needs:
*           Information Management & Technology (IM&T) in Healthcare
*           Communications and Information Technology
*           Health Care Information and Evidence-Based Practice
*           Change Management and IM&T
*           Research Methods and IM&T
 
The programme may be studied over one (PGCertificate), two (PGDiploma) or
three (MSc) years and is open to graduates in medicine, health, science or
technology and non-graduates. Applicants will typically have a minimum of
two years' previous relevant work experience although complementary
strengths will also be considered.
http://www.shef.ac.uk/is/courses/pg_mschi.html
 
Application form at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/rao/admissions/pgadmit/how2apply.html 
 
Further details from: The Graduate Admissions Secretary,
Department of Information Studies, The University of Sheffield, Regent
Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield,S1 4DP.  Tel: 0114 2222630 Fax: 0114 2780300
 
Email:  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]

Andrew Booth

Director of Information Resources and Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice