Education and medical informatics--five years of experience at the University of Limburg.

In this paper the experience of five years of medical informatics education at the university of Limburg is described. The university of Limburg uses the problem-directed educational system. This system is described. The blocks in Medical Informatics are then presented. Then several program packages that were developed by the department of Medical Informatics of this university are described. Finally the assessment by the students of this type of education is given.