Computer Applications in Medicine Elective

2000 April

Sessions

All sessions start at 10:30.
Sessions will generally last 1.5 to 2 hours.

M	Apr 3	Introduction to the elective.
		Word processing.	Article 1.
		Telnet. Passwords.	Passwords.
T	Apr 4	Internet. Passwords. Viruses.
		E-mail.
		Discussion lists and newsgroups.	List.
			Newsgroup.
W	Apr 5	Conferencing software.	WebCT.
		Using Peruse, including Medline and Current Contents.	Medline.
T	Apr 6	Discussion of readings.	Chapter 1.
F	Apr 7	World Wide Web: browsing and searching.	Web search.
			Article 2.
M	Apr 10	HTML.	Web pages.
T	Apr 11	FTP.
		Putting Web pages on Mystic.
W	Apr 12	Computer hardware, binary arithmetic.	Binary.
T	Apr 13	Computer software.	Quiz.
F	Apr 14	Discussion of readings.
M	Apr 17	Graphics concepts. Encoding text and graphics.
T	Apr 18	Database concepts.
		How to choose a computer.
W	Apr 19	Presentations of class home pages.