Computer Applications in Medicine Elective

1999 April

Sessions

All sessions start at 10:30.
Sessions will generally last 1.5 to 2 hours.

T	Apr 13	Introduction to the elective.
		Word processing.	Article 1.
		Telnet. Passwords.	Passwords.
W	Apr 14	Internet. Passwords. Viruses.
		E-mail.
		Discussion lists and newsgroups.	List.
			Newsgroup.
T	Apr 15	Conferencing software.	WebCT.
		Using Peruse, including Medline and Current Contents.	Medline.
F	Apr 16	Discussion of readings.	Chapter 1.
M	Apr 19	World Wide Web: browsing and searching.	Web search.
			Article 2.
T	Apr 20	HTML.	Web pages.
		FTP.
		Putting Web pages on Mystic.
W	Apr 21	Discussion of readings.	Chapter 2.
T	Apr 22	Computer hardware, binary arithmetic.	Binary.
F	Apr 23	Computer software.	Quiz.
M	Apr 26	Discussion of readings.
T	Apr 27	Graphics concepts. Encoding text and graphics.
W	Apr 28	Database concepts.
		How to choose a computer.
T	Apr 29	Presentations of class home pages.