However, most current pharmacy curricula in Thailand barely address the principles and skills concerned with informatics, and Thai pharmacists usually acquire computer literacy and informatics skills through personal-interest training and self-study.
The investigators discovered that many of their colleagues achieved success in integrating library and informatics skills into their respective curricula.
This may require an intense scripting effort which can rarely be made by a user with basic informatics skills.
For example, 18 (75%) perceived that the course increased their knowledge in informatics, and 5 (21%) perceived that the course provided participants more informatics skills.
Inadequate education in informatics skills is a constraint among medical students, doctors, nurses, and many other health care professionals who have varying levels of computer competence [ 12- 14].
This was done to simulate a low-barrier of entry approach to using cloud computing that would be most accessible to researchers lacking advanced informatics skills or resources.
It contains scripts for over a 100 analysis tools and users can add new tools (requiring basic informatics skills) and share all analysis steps and pipelines.
Most available software solutions, however, still require user intervention or provide modules that need advanced informatics skills to allow implementation in pipelines.
Education in medical informatics skills in these regions is also inadequate, and levels of computer competence vary among medical students, doctors, nurses, and many other health care professionals [ 6].
Because individuals with informatics skills are highly prized by industry and by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Peru, negotiating realistic salaries and careers in university settings proved to be a pivotal area of endeavor for the AMAUTA program.
