Computers for Health A Swiss Virtual Campus proposal of the five Swiss medical faculties for a Medical Informatics Course for medical and non-medical students| Project ID: | 991024 | | Project outline | | Course platform: | Prometheus (based on Coldfusion) |
Project Leader Dr. Bengt Kayser
bengt.kayser@medecine.unige.ch
Unité de développement et de recherche en éducation médicale
Université de Genève
1, rue Michel Servet
1225 Genève Project Coordinator Dr. Vanya Loroch
vanya.loroch@medecine.unige.ch
Unité de développement et de recherche en éducation médicale
Université de Genève Genève
Project Partners Fr. Grossenbacher
| SAMW | B. Ruedi
| Swiss Society for Medical Informatics | R. Bonvin
| Universität Basel | U. Woermann
| Universität Bern | Dr. A. Geissbühler
| Université de Genève | Dr. Th. Pun
| Université de Genève | Dr. Ch. Bovet
| Université de Genève | Dr. P. Dillenbourg
| Université de Genève | A. Baran
| Université de Lausanne | Dr. J.-P. Thiran
| EPFL | M. Denz
| Universität Zürich |
SummaryComputers for Health is a nation-wide effort to develop, to co-ordinate and to teach the essential content and aspects of medical informatics to medical and other students using Web-based "Virtual Campus" technology. We are planning to build educational contents, not technology.
The content of the course will focus on aspects and skills which physicians and other medical professionals need while learning and practising medicine in the information era. These skills include:
- Basics of information and communication technology: databases, the Internet, problems of security and encryption and their related ethical and legal aspects (privacy, confidentiality, security)
- Information indexing and retrieval: nomenclatures (ICD, Tarmed, MeSH), information encoding, bibliographic searching, on-line resources, critique of the information available on the Internet
- Medical reasoning and expert systems: theories of medical reasoning and their computer-based applications, challenges for the construction and maintenance of knowledge bases, potential and limits of expert systems
- Clinical informatics: the electronic patient record, medical decision-support systems, hospital information systems
- Digital imaging: basics, PACS, non-radiological imaging
- Bio-statistics, the basics and use of statistics as pertaining to medical informatics specifically, and to the health sciences and the understanding statistics in the bio-medical literature in general
The course will consist of a core curriculum compulsory for ALL medical students in Switzerland, supplemented with additional optional modules. All elements will also be accessible to students of other faculties (law, biology, informatics) or professional schools (health professions). Several of these institutions have expressed their vivid interest to become clients of our course in their program.
In line with the Swiss Virtual Campus framework, our project, initially geared toward pre-graduate medical training, has the ambition to become the stepping-stone towards a comprehensive modular system of pre- and post-graduate training in medical informatics. In this regard the active involvement in the project of the Swiss Society of Medical Informatics is to be pointed out specifically.
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