A unique combination of scientific and applied education
ELLLA educates and trains medicine and computer science students, health care professionals and researchers, to prepare for and keep up with the real and rapidly changing world of digital solutions for health care.
Build skills for tomorrow, working on real digital solutions today.
ELLLA is embedded in educational programmes of the University of Amsterdam (Uva) and Amsterdam UMC at the department of Medical Informatics. We provide world-class scientific education in academic disciplines: medicine and health sciences, human factors engineering, computer science, implementation science, health technology assessment, and computer science.
All of our students also have the opportunity to build their skills, network and CV by working on real digital solutions for health care as part of their education and training.
Study and grow with us
Bachelor & master students
Today’s students are tomorrow’s agents of change. Learn skills in-demand with employers, to lead develop, evaluate and implement trusted digital solutions for healthcare.
Health care professionals
Digital transformation in health care is accelerating. Professionals and researchers must continually grow, adapt and revalidate their skills to provide the best person-centred care.
- – NEW! Evidence-based UX for health care
- – Amsterdam UMC professional Master Health Informatics
- – Bespoke training options available for your needs
PhD student & early career researchers
Usability and user-testing are becoming more important to health care providers and funding bodies. Increase the quality and innovativeness of your research by learning the methods that ELLLA develops and applies.
- – NEW! Evidence-based UX for health care
- – Bespoke training options available for your needs
Opportunities for current students
We offer opportunities for current students from UvA, other Dutch universities and international students. Come and experience a unique, exciting and fun learning environment in the heart of Amsterdam.
If you’re a Bachelor or Master student from the UvA’s medical informatics programme, you can do your internship and thesis projects with ELLLA. Medical Informatics Master students who choose the elective track “Sustainable eHealth solutions” also have extra opportunities to work with the lab.
If you’re a medical student at the UvA, then you can do your elective education (keuzeonderwijs: non-clinical internship) with ELLLA.
For more opportunities for student internships, work experience, international exchanges, or anything else, please get in touch!
Student stories
Ellen Minkin, UvA Master Medical Informatics
“I set out to gain real-world experience, developing a new AI-powered care planning tool for the cardiology clinic. Using ELLLA’s mobile UX lab, collaborating with both a company and a hospital on a new tool that will be put into real-world use let me test my skills and gain a preview of what my career could look like.”
Susan Oudbier, PhD candidate, Evidence-based UX for Healthcare
“With ELLLA you get hands on research tools that you can use straight away. Using the tools from this UX course, I found usability issues with the electronic health record for patients and health care professionals, that could be addressed and improved.”
Wail, Master Medicine, non-clinical internship
“I chose to do one of my elective modules (keuzeonderwijs) with ELLLA because I wanted to understand more about how I might use AI in clinical practice in future. My research on AI tools for clinical decision support in dermatology was immediately valuable to share with my colleagues.”
Innovation in education
Education itself must adapt to the rapid digital transformation of health care. Read more about how ELLLA’s team of educators are innovating to train the next generation to develop, evaluate and implement trusted digital solutions for health care.
Health information systems in the medical curriculum
Harm Gijsbers leads ELLLA’s project with the UvA faculty of medicine, focused on optimizing electonic health record training for medical students. With the right digital skills, doctors can enhance data quality and patient care.
HealthTech @Home Learning Alliance
Three Amsterdam further and higher education institutions collaborate in the HealthTech @Home alliance to train future health care professionals for home care using technology and AI in a user-friendly way.
Let’s talk
Ready to learn and grow with ELLLA? We’d love to hear from you about how we can help you build your skills and your career. Send us an email now, or follow us and reach out via LinkedIn.