Computer Applications in Medicine Elective
Computer Applications in Medicine Elective
2007 March
This list of assignments is tentative.
All assignments are to be done as individuals unless otherwise noted.
Due Mar 12.
Download and install the OpenOffice.org office suite to the computer that you will be using for your assignments.
Due Mar 13.
In teams of two, read one of the Applications chapters from Shortliffe & Cimino. Send me an e-mail message giving the names of your team and saying which chapter you want to read. Each team should read a different chapter, first come first served. As I receive the requests I shall mark the chapters in the following list this way.
Prepare a presentation using OpenOffice.org Impress, taking into account the guidelines discussed in class. The presentation should include the objectives of the article, highlights of the article, and your own comments about the article. Use Impress in your oral presentation of the chapter for the class discussion. Aim for a 10-minute presentation, to be followed by a 5-minute question period. Both team members should participate in the presentation; everyone is expected to participate in the question period.
Due Mar 14.
Choose an article related to computers in medicine. E-mail me the title, author, source, year and page numbers of the article, by Mar 8.
The article must be at least four full pages long, and must have been published in the scientific literature within the past two years. It should discuss a specific medical application of computers, and not be just a general review of how to use the Web.
Write a summary which includes three sections of about 100 words each:
Prepare the summary as an HTML file and include it in your Web site. You should include headings, subheadings, emphasized text and strongly emphasized text, using appropriate HTML tags.
Due: Mar 8–22
Read an item from my list of articles about Microsoft practices. If you prefer, you may find a similar article elsewhere. Discuss what you've read with the class by e-mail, first announcing what you're going to read. Contribute to an on-line discussion of the overall topic.
If reading Grygus, you need read only one major section, not the whole thing, but you should also check and comment on at least one of his references.
Due Mar 21.
Choose a topic for a second article. The topic should be different from that of the first article that you read.
As before, the article must be at least four full pages long; must have been published in the scientific literature within the past two years; and should discuss a specific medical application of computers, and not be just a general review of how to use the Web.
E-mail me the title, author, source, year and page numbers of the article, by Mar 14.
Prepare a summary as an HTML file and include it in your Web site, as for your first article summary. This Web page will be used as the basis for your discussion of your second article.
Due Mar 21.
Prepare Web pages and install them on
As a minimum, you should have an HTML file for each of the two article summaries that you've written, plus a home page containing links to the two article summaries and a link to your chapter summary as a PDF file. Each HTML file must contain the required elements discussed in class, and there must be at least one image somewhere.
At least one of your Web pages (containing at least one link and one image) must be manually coded using a text editor or, equivalently, using a word processor and saving as a plain-text file. Do not use the Save as HTML feature of your word processor, nor any specialized HTML editor. (If you already have experience with manual coding of HTML pages, let me know and we'll determine an appropriate alternate requirement.)
Note that you should not include copyrighted material on Web pages without permission from the copyright holder.