Assignments

1. Choose and read an article related to computers in medicine. The article should be more than a couple of pages long, and should have been published in the scientific literature within the past two years.
   1. E-mail me the title, author, etc., of the article. (Titles chosen)
   2. Prepare a summary using a word processor. The summary should include some of your own comments about the article. The document should contain examples of indenting, automatic paragraph numbering, text attributes, a proportional font, page numbering, a header, and space for a 2"-by-2" image with the text wrapping around it. Save the word-processing document as a WordPerfect 5.1 file in your Medcor account, and e-mail me the name of the file.
   3. Do a Web search to find some articles relevant to the article you've read. E-mail me a description of your search strategy and the results.
2. Choose a topic for a second article. The topic should be different from that of the article that you read for Assignment 1.
   1. E-mail me a description of the topic.
   2. Do a Medline search to find a suitable article, and e-mail me a description of your search strategy and the results.
   3. Read the article and prepare a summary like the one for Assignment 1. E-mail it to me as a plain text file.
3. Read one of the Applications chapters from Osheroff. Prepare a summary as before and e-mail it to me as a plain text file.
4. Read one of the Applications chapters from Shortliffe & Perreault. Prepare a summary as before and e-mail it to me as a plain text file.
5. Send me an e-mail message containing your birth date as binary numbers for the year (e.g., 96), month and day.
6. Prepare a Web page and e-mail it to me. It should contain the required elements discussed in class, plus links to HTML files containing the summaries that you've created as text files.
7. Insert an image into your Web page, and install it in a public_html directory on mystic.biomed.mcgill.ca.
8. Create a patient case presentation for display on your Web site. Include a relevant multiple-choice question, with links to pages explaining why each answer is right or wrong. If you bring me an illustration relevant to the case, I'll scan it and give you a GIF file which you can include on your Web page. The material can be either colour or black-and-white. You can bring it to class, and I'll return it after scanning. Note that we can't include copyrighted material on Web pages without permission from the copyright holder.