IMIA White Paper on "Recommendations of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) on Education in Biomedical and Health Informatics - First Revision" - The development of educational recommendations can be considered as a cumbersome and consensus driven approach as it tries to merge across different cultural and educational paradigms over continents. One can understand the huge task that IMIA has undertaken in the recent decade when the initial recommendations were developed and published. In 2007 the IMIA Board decided to review the existing recommendations developed in 1998 due to the changes in the field.   Link to issue 2/2010