School of Health Information Management, UCH, Ibadan

The School of Health Information Management (SHIM), formerly the School of Medical Records, is a health-sector training school of the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, in Oyo State, Nigeria. It trains health information managers, the professionals who plan, collate, organise, disseminate, monitor and manage the health data needed at local, state and federal levels for national health care delivery. Its stated mission is to develop highly trained and qualified professionals in Health Information Management and health care services.

The school offers two programmes, a National Diploma (ND) and a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Health Information Management, each a four-semester (two-year) full-time course. The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) carried out a resource inspection and granted full accreditation for two streams of thirty students each for the ND and HND programmes. Admission is conducted through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), in whose brochure the school is listed, and eligible graduates are mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).

The ND curriculum covers Health Information Management, Fundamentals of Medical Practice, Disease Classification and Clinical Coding, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Health Planning and Management, Primary Health Care, Descriptive Statistics, Health Informatics, Database Management Systems, Record Documentation Systems, Medical Demography, Monitoring and Evaluation, and computer courses including operating systems, programming and computer packages. The ND requires 92 credited units and the HND 94 units including a project work; the pass mark for every course is 40 out of 100. Students undertake supervised projects and SIWES (industrial attachment), and clinical attachment takes place in the hospital environment.

The academic staff are led by the Head of School, supported by lecturers and by a Student Affairs Officer and Academic Affairs Officers. Staff professional affiliations include the Health Records Officers Registration Board of Nigeria, the professional regulator for the field.

Student life is organised around a Student Union whose officers (President, Vice President, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Treasurer, Public Relations Officer and Sport Secretary) are elected each session; membership is voluntary and funded by an annual subscription. Approved clubs and societies operate with the Head of School's permission, and there is a School Press Club and active encouragement of sports. A formal dress code applies in school and during clinical attachment, with scrubs or ward coats worn on designated days. Students complete a medical screening and NHIS enrolment procedure after admission.