Computer Applications in Medicine Elective

2006 March

Instructor

Objectives

General

Challenge: wide range of student backgrounds

Approach:

• overview lectures on some topics
• student readings and class discussions
• possibility of extra lectures or small-group sessions
• time for independent reading

Requested topics:

• how to make a Web site; Web-page design
• overview of computer applications in medicine
  • how computers can be better integrated into medical practice
  • electronic charting
  • how to make/use a program to keep patient records
  • information security and privacy, confidentiality
  • diagnosing diseases and predicting outcomes
• up and coming developments that will affect medicine
• fundamentals of computers and programming
  • computer hardware
  • more basic concepts like binary arithmetic
  • how to buy a computer
• Internet: www, ftp, newsgroups, etc.
• object-oriented databases
• presentation software
• spreadsheet software
• database planning and design
• PDA and its applications
• DVD design software

General information

Unix accounts

Accounts on funsan.biomed.mcgill.ca are provided for the purpose of creating your own Web pages.

Because of the limited resources on Funsan, we ask that you use it only for uploading files for your Web pages. We will entertain individual requests for permission to do other things.

These accounts on Funsan will be removed at the end of this course, except by special arrangement.