Rowan Seymour

Rowan Seymour replied to "FW: EHSDI course open for applications" in the Health IT community.

Ah sorry - outlook word wrapped them... http://wiki.openmrs.org/download/attachments/3346254/EHSDI+Call+For+Applications.pdf http://wiki.openmrs.org/download/attachments/3346254/EHSDI+Application+Form.pdf The course is aimed at computer science graduates and is fulltime for 9 months. It focuses on giving them the skills and knowledge required to develop high-quality software such as OpenMRS modules that can be used in clinics and hospitals in Rwanda or elsewhere. We’ve been running it for two years and graduates have gotten jobs with the health ministry and lots of different NGOs – ...

Rowan Seymour replied to "Local Development Panel Discussion (July 19-30th, 2010)" in the Health IT community.

Hi everyone I'm currently managing a training course for E-Health software developers in Rwanda, run by Partners in Health. This is the second year of our course and we have 12 students on a 9 month course where they learn everything necessary to develop modules for the OpenMRS EMR. We take computer science graduates, but we've found that for programming we pretty much need to start from scratch. Most of the students know some theory ...

Rowan Seymour replied to "EMR Staff and Training – Challenges and Solutions" in the Health IT community.

Ok so a little update from Rwanda - we are now into the second year of the training course. The students from last year all graduated and got a technical certificate from the Rwanda Development Board, and were mostly placed in jobs with the Ministry of Health, where they are currently developing software for a national EMR implementation. However, one of the students is now employed as a mentor in the this year's course. This ...

Rowan Seymour replied to "EMR Staff and Training – Challenges and Solutions" in the Health IT community.

Hi Amy - sorry for the lack of updates until now. Our course is continuing here in Kigali, and we have now reached the Enterprise Java Programming unit of the course. We are slowly making course materials available on http://openmrs.org/wiki/EHSDI_Training_Course but we are a bit behind on that, as it takes time to refine and organize the materials before making them available. Currently the first two units (IT Foundations and Web Design) are complete, but ...

Rowan Seymour replied to "Rwandan OpenMRS Training course" in the Health IT community.

Hi Aaron I'm one of the mentors on this training program. Yesterday I checked out pbwiki and the Add Resource functionality of this site. I'm thinking it might be confusing to upload all of our resources directly onto this site because of their shear volume, and it would be much easier to convey the overall structure of this course through a wiki. We could upload links to the resources for each unit as they are ...