Designing a Medical Informatics Curriculum
An informal view of Fall 2001 course attendees about topics and audiences for Medical Informatics courses
Scores: R=Required, E=Elective, NR=Not Recommended


Topic
Health 
Prof
Students
Library/
InfoSci
Students
Practicing
Health 
Professionals
Biomed
Researchers
Health
Administrators
What is Medical Informatics?
 R
R 
R 
R 
R 
National perspective on current Issues in Medical Informatics
 R
R 
R 
R/E 
R 
 Principles of Database Design  R/E
R 
E 
R 
E 
The Unified Medical Language System
 E
R 
E 
 R/E
E/NR 
How the Internet Works and is evolving technologically  R/E
R 
E/NR 
E 
E 
PubMed and the NLM Gateway: online information access
 R
R 
R 
R 
R 
Bioinformatics and Genomics  R/E
R/E 
E 
R 
NR 
Encryption, HIPAA and Public Policy Issues
 E
E 
R 
E/NR 
R 
Digital Library Research
 E
R 
E 
E 
NR 
Principles of Web Page Design
 E
R/E 
E 
E 
E/NR 
Principles of Controlled Terminology  R/E
R 
R/E 
R 
E/NR 
Technology Assessment/Evaluation Methods in Medical Informatics
 R/E
  R/E
R/E 
R/E 
R/E 
Clinical Decision Support/How Expert Systems Work
 R
E 
R
E 
R/E 
Legal and Ethical Issues related to use of clinical computer systems
 R
 R/E 
R 
E 
R 
Structuring and Exchanging Data 
 E
R/E 
 E
R/E 
E/NR 
Web Interfaces to Databases
 E
R 
E 
E 
E/NR 
Architecture basics: enterprise technology, information and security standards  R/E
R 
E 
E 
R 
Organizing IT/Informatics for Success - management structures  R/E R/E 
E 
E 
R 
Managing Change  R/E
R/E 
R/E 
E 
R 
Telemedicine
 R
R/E 
R 
E 
R 
More on... data modeling, curriculum devel, EMR models          
Public Health informatics (EMR for surveillance), geographic info systems          
Data mining           
Imaging, structural informatics           
Simulation and mathematical modeling          
CME, Adult educational technologies

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