Designing a medical informatics curriculum

Class assessments of relevance and importance of medical informatics topics to various audiences.
Key: R = REQUIRED, E = ELECTIVE, N = NOT RECOMMENDED
Topic
Health 
Professions
Students
Medical
Library & 
Info Sci 
Students
Practicing
Health
Professionals
Health
Administrators
What is Medical Informatics?
 R
 R
 R
 R
HPCC, NII and current issues in Medical Informatics
 R/E
 R/E
 E
 R/E
Principles of Database Design
 R/E
R 
E
E 
Internet technologies
 E
R 
E
R/E 
Unified Medical Language System: what it is, what used for
 R/E
R
E/N 
E/N 
Using Pub Med and the NLM Gateway
 R*
R* 
 R
E 
Personal Skills Workshop: 
Class of '2000 Personal Web Pages
E 
R 
 E
E/N 
Molecular Biology Information Resources
 E
 R/E
E 
N 
Encryption and Public Policy Issues
 E
R/E 
E 
R/E
Principles of HTML, SGML, and Web Page Design
E 
R 
 E
E/N 
Medical Uses of Spatial and Geographic Data
 E
E 
E/N 
N 
Evening Workshop: Introduction to Personal Databases
 E
R 
E 
E 
Principles of Controlled Terminology
R
R
R/E 
R/E 
Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics 
 R/E
R/E 
E 
R/E 
Clinical Information Systems: 
Organizational Success Factors
 E
E 
E 
R* 
Enterprise Information Architecture and Standards
 E/N
E 
E/N 
R/E 
Expert Systems: Applying Evidence to Practice
 E
E 
E 
E 
Information Resources to Support Practice
 R*
R* 
R 
E 
Applications of Controlled Vocabulary
 R/E
R 
E 
E 
Knowledge Acquisition and Filtering
 E
R 
E 
E/N 
Application of information technology to Clinical Pathways, 
Documentation by Exception, Variance Tracking
 R/E
E 
R/E
R/E 
Legal and Ethical Issues in Clinical Information Systems: 
Putting Policy into Action
 R
R 
R 
R* 
Building Web Interfaces to Databases
 E
R/E 
E 
E 
Clinical data standards (HL7, LOINC, etc.)
 E
R/E 
E 
E 
Telemedicine Systems
 R/E
R/E 
R/E 
R/E 
Human-computer interface design    
 
The Full Text Problem
Document delivery services in literature retrieval 
Evaluating vendor systems
Career guidance, further educational
Consumer health informatics
Security and Confidentiality 
Distance education
Cost benefit analysis methods for technology, 
capital budgeting
Hot topics e.g. HIPAA

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