a resource consultant. How can we train individuals who can and do function well at the interface between medicine and the world of computing? My prior observation leads me to say that so far the most successful individuals functioning in this interface capacity have learned virtually none of their consulting skills from formal academic training programs On the other hand, there have been individuals who were drawn from the start by their interests and personality toward the medical milieu. In addition, they have brought with them computer knowledge. One of the best medical computer experts I know has told me very recently that he is beginning to doubt if a good computer consultant can be trained by any other method than by having a prolonged apprenticeship under the sympathetic guidance of one or more interested M.D.s, who have a good understanding of the medical environment and can somehow initiate the apprentice into that environment. I recognize that this is not likely to be a very tractable position for me to take at this particular meeting. It would be nice for us to be able to begin to define training curricula for health computing experts. However, I do want
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