Medical Informatics Curriculum

Curricula Descriptions

Medical Informatics Curriculum

Goal -- Broad, General

Understand the utility of information management to track, impact patient care thru quality assurance process
Be able to formulate appropriate clinic questions, access resources and databases to impact patient care
Be able to analyze quality of information

Objectives---specific and measurable, how, knowledge, skills and attitudes

Use pocket pc information database at point of service of hospital clinic
Use MD consult to access articles
Use EBM databases as on website
- Be able to differentiate different types of information
- Assess filters as to their usefulness and reliability
Use infopoems to reinforce analysis of articles
Use worksheets to analyze articles in is it true
Use librarian to research literature, compare to findings on MD consult

Teaching Strategies—rotations, tactics, resources

Noon Lectures	Rotation/Cycle	Responsible Faculty
Orientation – introduce pocket pc	..	..
EBM & database overview yearly	..	..
PBSGL – on wrap up, bring analysis of charts	..	..

Rotation Experiences/Activities (Items marked with * address other curriculum goals and objectives but are integrated during this rotation.)

Continuity of Care Clinic

FPS

Community Medicine

Meet with faculty
Assess level of skills and remediate as needed
- Use of MD Consult, PubMed
- Use of Pocket PC
Request Article list on very defined subject from library and compare to finding from MD Consult/PubMed
Use librarian to research literature, compare to findings on MD consult
Assess filters as to their usefulness and reliability

Rural Medicine

Meet with faculty
- Review Rural Family Medicine.org
- EBM Databases
- Use of filters – assess filters as to their usefulness and reliability
- Use librarian to research literature, compare to findings on MD consult

Resources

Last Revision: 8/20/07