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Most medical schools in France have a chair position in Biostatistics and Medical Informatics to coordinate the teaching of these two disciplines both within the regular curriculum of medical studies and as a specialized teaching. This paper describes the current medical informatics specialized program offered in France in several Medical schools. The program comprises since 1968 a Master of Science and a Ph.D degree. Despite several reforms and in-depth program revisions the curriculum remains organized at the Master Level as a set of modules of 100 hours teaching with a large freedom for the medical faculties to define the content of the courses and for the students to organize their studies and combine medical informatics, biomathematics and biostatistics training. Since 1990, an intensive one year full-time course called “Advanced Study Diploma in Medical Informatics” is offered with a strong research orientation. This program seems a good strategy to form medical informatics specialists who have initially received a broader education in informatics and statistics.
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