Computer Applications in Medicine Elective
Computer Applications in Medicine Elective
1997 April-May
Due Apr 8.
Choose an article related to computers in medicine. E-mail me the title, author and source of the article.
The article should be at least four pages long, and should have been published in the scientific literature within the past two years.
Due Apr 10.
Prepare a summary (about one page) using a word processor. The summary should include some of your own comments about the article.
Your 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.
FTP the word-processing
document to your account on
Due ?.
Choose an e-mail discussion list related to health care. Subscribe to the list, and e-mail me the official description of the list by ?.
Monitor the list for two weeks and e-mail me a brief report about it.
Due ?.
Read one of the Applications chapters from either Osheroff or Shortliffe & Perreault. Prepare a summary, with comments, and e-mail it to me as a plain text file.
Due ?.
Do a Medline search related to the topic of the book chapter you're reading, finding 2 or 3 recent particularly relevant articles. E-mail me a description of your search strategy and the results, and append the actual output from Peruse.
Due ?.
Do a Web search to find two or three Web pages particularly relevant to the chapter you're reading. E-mail me a description of your search strategy and the results.
Due ?.
Read one of the Applications chapters from either Osheroff or Shortliffe & Perreault (whichever one you didn't choose the first time). Prepare a summary, with comments, and e-mail it to me as a plain text file.
Due Apr 23.
Send me an e-mail message containing your birth date as binary numbers for the year (e.g., 96), month and day.
Due ?.
Choose a topic for a second article. The topic should be different from that of the article that you read for Assignment 1. E-mail me a description of the topic by ?.
Read the article and prepare a summary with comments. E-mail it to me as a plain text file.
Due ?.
Prepare a Web home page and e-mail it to me. Your page should contain the required elements discussed in class, plus links to HTML files containing the article and chapter summaries that you've written.
Due ?.
Install your Web pages in a
public_html directory on
Due May 1.
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.