Computer Applications in Medicine Elective

2003 March/April

Sessions

All sessions start at 10:00.
Sessions will generally last 1.5 to 2 hours.
Sessions will be in room 235, except for 3 sessions (marked with asterisks) in room 232

M	Mar 17	Introduction to the elective.
		Word processing.	Article 1.  Chapter 1.
		Internet. Viruses.
		Telnet. Passwords.	Passwords.
W	Mar 19	E-mail.
		Discussion lists and newsgroups.	List.
			Newsgroup.
		Conferencing software.	WebCT.
T	Mar 20	Literature searching, including Medline and Current Contents.	Literature search.
		World Wide Web: browsing and searching.	Web search.
F	Mar 21	HTML.	Web pages.
M	Mar 24	Cancelled.
T*	Mar 25	Discussion of article 1.	Article 2.
W*	Mar 26	HTML (cont'd).
		FTP.
		Putting Web pages onto the server.
T*	Mar 27	Computer hardware, binary arithmetic.	Binary.
F	Mar 28	Computer hardware (cont'd).
		Computer software.	Quiz.
M	Mar 31	Discussion of readings.
W	Apr 2	Graphics concepts. Encoding text and graphics.
		Presentation software.
		Database concepts.
T	Apr 3	How to choose a computer.
F	Apr 4	Presentations of class home pages.