Computer Applications in Medicine Elective
Computer Applications in Medicine Elective
1998 April
Due Apr 15.
Choose an article related to computers in medicine. E-mail me the title, author, source, year and page numbers of the article.
The article must be at least four full pages long, and must have been published in the scientific literature within the past two years.
Due Apr 17.
Read the article chosen in assignment 1. Prepare a summary (double spaced, about two pages long) using a word processor (preferably either WordPerfect or Word). The summary should include (1) the objectives of the article, (2) highlights of the article, and (3) your own comments about the article. These three parts should be of roughly equal size and should be clearly indicated by headings.
Your document must contain
FTP the word-processing
document to your account on
Use Telnet to connect to mystic.biomed.mcgill.ca and login to Unix. Your username is the same as your Medcor VMS username, in lower case.
Change your password to one that only you know, using the
passwd command. Your password should be at least
six characters long, and should contain a mixture of upper and lower
case letters; it can also contain digits.
Remember that you are responsible for anything done using your account.
Due Apr 27.
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 Apr 17. If, within a day or two, the list appears to be inactive or not what you expected, unsubscribe and choose another one.
Monitor the list for one week and e-mail me a brief report about it. The report should include discussion of items like how busy the list was, the ratio of useful messages to junk messages, how useful the list was, and what audience it might be most useful for.
Due Apr 23.
Choose a newsgroup related to health care. Check the current messages and make sure there are at least a few messages per day.
Review the existing messages, and monitor the group for a few days, then e-mail me a brief report about it. The report should include discussion of items like how busy the group was, the ratio of useful messages to junk messages, how useful the group was, and what audience it might be most useful for.
Due Apr 22.
Read one of the Applications chapters from either Osheroff or Shortliffe & Perreault. Prepare a summary (same requirements as for your article summary, but don't worry about the italics and bold, indenting, header and graphics box) and e-mail it to me as an attachment.
Due Apr 21.
Do a Medline search related to the topic of the book chapter you're reading, indentifying a small number of recent and particularly relevant articles. The final search itself should produce no more than ten articles, from which you should select the two or three most relevant. E-mail me a concise description of your search strategy and the results. Append the actual search output from Peruse to your e-mail message.
Due Apr 23.
Do a Web search to find two or three Web pages particularly relevant to the chapter you're reading. Do the search using all three of Alta Vista, Yahoo! and Medical World Search, in that order. E-mail me a brief narrative description of your search strategy, and the best two or three links found.
Due Apr 30.
Read one of the Applications chapters from either Osheroff or Shortliffe & Perreault (whichever book you did not choose the first time). Prepare a summary, with comments, and include it in your Web site.
Due Apr 28.
Send me an e-mail message containing your birth date with both decimal and binary numbers for the year, month and day. (You only need to include the last two digits of the year, e.g., 96.)
Due Apr 27.
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 Apr 22.
Prepare a summary, with comments, and include it in your Web site.
Due Apr 30.
Prepare Web pages and install on
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.
Due Apr 27.
Do the quiz on the Camel WebCT site.