The Amsterdam International Medical Summer School (AIMSS)
Health informatics: the role of informatics in health care 
Sunday, July 8 - Friday, July 20, 2007
This summer school is a collaborative effort of the Academic Medical Center University of Amsterdam and IPHIE, an International Partnership of Health Informatics Education.
This two weeks course highlights the role of the doctor in controlling the impact of informatics on the health care sector. At the end of the course you should be able to understand the scope of potential changes informatics tools may bring to the health care field, to critically appraise the pros and cons of these tools in fundamentally changing daily working practices and to play a key role in optimizing the design of information systems for the health care sector.
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Applicant Profile
Advanced students in medicine, biology and health sciences with knowledge of biomedical and clinical sciences and recent graduates.
Application 
Candidates will be selected on the basis of their detailed resumée and written motivation. Please send in your curriculum vitae and letter of motivation together with your application form, as soon as possible but no later than Friday, June 1, 2007. Applications are completed after full payment of the course fee is received.
AMSU Course Name: MEDIC-2.
Details
Date: Sunday, July 8 - Friday, July 20, 2007.
Application Deadline: Friday, June 1, 2007.
Capacity: 30 participants.
Language of Instruction: English.
Certificate: Certificate of attendance on completion of the course.
Location: The Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam (UvA). Meibergdreef 15, 1105 AZ, Amsterdam. The AMC can be reached in 25 minutes from Central Station Amsterdam by subway, direction Gein, stop Holendrecht.
Fee: Applications received before or on June 1, 2007: € 675,-; after June 1: € 775,-.
(Course fee includes educational programme, accommodation*, public transport in Amsterdam, welcome drink, social & cultural programme**, closing buffet.
Initiators: The Academic Medical Centre (AMC), University of Amsterdam (UvA) & The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Coordination: The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).
Registration: Registration will take place in the city centre of Amsterdam: exact location to be announced.
Course Leaders
AMC
M. Jaspers, PhD (Netherlands) - Associate Professor; Clinical Informatics; Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC).
C.J.F. van Noorden PhD (Netherlands) - Professor; Cell Biology & Histology; Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC).
G.E.A. ten Have (Netherlands) - International Office; Amsterdam Medical Centre (AMC).
University of Braunschweig, Germany
R. Haux PhD (Germany) - Professor; Institut für Medizinische Informatik, (Braunschweig).
IPHIE
E. Ammenwerth (Austria) - Professor; University of Health Informatics & Technology Tyrol.
T. Wetter PhD (Germany) - Professor; University of Heidelberg.
* Accommodation
Accommodation is included in the course fee. Please note that accommodation will be provided in modest student facilities in shared, double rooms. Single room can be asked for but will be allocated depending on availability.
** Social & Cultural Programme
A variety of cultural and social activities is offered, such as sight-seeing tours, visit to a museum, concerts, theatre shows and a boat tour through the canals of Amsterdam. The AMC is also known for its large collection of Dutch modern art after 1964.
Programme
The course includes series of lectures, hands-on experience, demonstrations and workshops on topics, such as the computerized patient record, telemedicine, bio-informatics, (international) health care registration systems, decision making in medicine and support tools, evaluation of health care applications and strategic information management of hospital information systems. A lively social and cultural program in and outside Amsterdam is part of the program.
A detailed programme will be available here soon.
Special Event 2007
Only for this year course participant will be able to participate in one day of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 07) to be held in Amsterdam.
Appended Terms & Conditions
Written cancellations received before Thursday, June 1, 2007 will be refunded, 15% administrative expenses will be deducted for administrative expenses.
No refunds will be made for cancellations received after June 1, 2007 or for non-attendance. In case of cancellation the course materials will be forwarded in any case.
The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University reserves the right to cancel a course due to unforeseen circumstances without any liability for damages arising. In that case the participation sum, if already paid, will be refunded in full.
All participants in the courses are bound by the Board's Standard Conditions, which will be sent to you upon request.
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