The first semester of the Master’s programme focuses on medical data analysis (3 courses) and academic skills (in parallel with the other courses). The semester is concluded by a multidisciplinary internship. The second semester focuses on management of healthcare organizations (3 courses) and professional skills (in parallel with the other courses). This semester too is concluded by a multidisciplinary internship.

Having obtained a strong basis during the first year of the Master's in Medical informatics, the second year allows you to tailor the programme to your own personal preferences and skills. We offer two elective tracks: AI for Health and Sustainable eHealth Solutions. As an alternative to these elective tracks, it is also possible to follow 18 EC worth of courses at other master programmes. Note that for students who started the master programme in February it is not possible to follow an elective track and still finish the master in two years; instead, you will have to follow courses at other master programmes (or accept a delay of 6 months).

Elective track AI for Health

AI for Health builds on the medical data analysis courses in year 1. We study applications in healthcare of AI techniques, such as deep learning, ontologies, reasoning, natural language processing, image processing and prediction models. This track is a collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence (AI) master's programme of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Elective track Sustainable eHealth Solutions

In this track we investigate the impact of eHealth solutions on their users (can patients and doctors use them?), the organizations (do departments benefit from them?) and climate (do they lead to lower emissions?). We use our eHealth lab to measure the effect of human factors on the usability of ehealth applications. 

Electives at other master programmes

Choose from a wide range of elective courses such as Business Process Management, Bioinformatics, Internet Programming, Economics and Financing of Health Care Systems, The Social Web, Pandemic, Ethics and Politics of Surveillance and Privacy, Computational Biology. 

Courses can be chosen at other UvA master programmmes or at master programmes of other universities.

Start your career smoothly by doing an internship of 5 EC in the first year, followed by an internship of around 42 EC in the second year. 

This especially gives international students a unique opportunity to experience the Dutch Health ICT labor market. Students can choose from a range of internship positions offered by our contacts with Health ICT research institutes, businesses and other international universities such as those in the International Partnership of Health Informatics Education. The internship will be guided by an academic supervisor and must be finished with a scientific report.

You may choose to participate in an exchange semester to fulfill your master thesis work facilitated by another (international) university. Amsterdam UMC, location AMC,  took the lead in establishing an international network of 10 partner universities, each offering unique opportunities for such an exchange semester. 

These partner universities are:
USA:  University of Minnesota, University of Utah, University of Washington
Canada: University of Victoria
Asia: University of Taiwan
Europe: University of Heidelberg/Heilbronn, University of Leipzig, University of Manchester, University of Tyrol, University of Braunschweig, University of Linkoping