MS4 Didactics: Informatics and advanced

evidence-based medicine: Schedule - 2008

Course description:

The course is for students who want to master information and evidence. We will use the computer lab to learn advanced skills in: 1) retrieving information, 2) storing and filing information, 3) keeping up with new advances. In addition, we will learn what can you do in your clinic or hospital to improve the implementation of evidence. We will complete two projects in order to learn these skills. The skills will include both strategies and techniques.

This course is directed by Bob Badgett and is taught by Bob Badgett, Eric Mortensen, Jim Legler, Bill Beer.

Before the selective, each student should identify one clinical topic that they want to use as their example for learning how to master information. Also, be willing to share with the class your own favorite discovery in information management; for example, a new website, PDA program, or strategy.

• List of topics from 2007
• List of topics from 2008

Schedule for 2008

Friday March 7 3-4:50 pm

• Class introduction
• Independent projects assignment:
  • Choose topics for project 1 - Evidence-based edits to a public wiki (individual)
    • Example
  • Project 2 - Organizational change with informatics (in pairs)
    • Example
• Keeping up. Please register for
  • MyNCBI
  • NEJM free email table of contents
  • the email TOC for the best journal in the specialty of your internship
  • and maybe BMJUpdates and HighWire (good for full text SDIs)
• Searching, maintaining a bibliography

Thursday March 13 3-4:50 pm

• Before class
  • email me your topic for project 2 - Organizational change with the EMR
  • consider registering for
  • Connotea (free)
• and maybe
  • RefWorks (very good for online storage of articles if you write papers; free if your institution subscribes)
• Class
  • Quality assurance, performance monitoring
  • EHRs and CPOE

Friday March 14 3-4:50 am

• Help with projects

Friday March 28 10-11:50

• First hour - project 1. Disseminating knowledge by editting an online collaboratively editted textbook
  • Each student will present their edit.
• Second hour - project 2
  • Each team will present their project
  • We will have an anonymous vote for three prizes
    1. The project that is most justified
    2. The project with the best interface
    3. The project most likely to succeed. This project will be submitted to UHS and the VA for consideration.

Topics that are important, but we will not have time. You can review their information from previous years if you are interested.

• Information for Patients
• Communicating electronically with patients
  • UTHSCSA secure email
• Bioinformatics
• Expert diagnostic systems

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