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Informatics In Medical Education
06/28/1996
Frank Naeymi-Rad, Ph.D.1, David Trace, M.D.1, Khalid Moidu, M.D., Ph.D.2,
Lowell Carmony, PhD3, and Theodore Booden, Ph.D.1
1 Finch University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, IL 60085
2 Center for Health Informatics, Section for Pulmonary Medicine, Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, CT 06856
3 Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL 60045
Abstract
The importance of informatics training within a health sciences program is well recognized and is being implemented on an increasing scale. At Chicago Medical School, the Informatics program incorporates information technology at every stage of medical education. First year students are offerred an elective in computer topics that concentrate on basic computerliteracy. Second year students learn information management such as entry and information retrieval skills. For example, during the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course, the student is exposed to a computerized patient record program developed at The Chicago Medical School. This program, IMR-E (Intelligent Medical Record-Entry), allows the student to enter and organize information gathered from patient encounters. In the third year,
students attending the Internal Medicine rotation at Norwalk Hospital are equipped with Macintosh power books to enter and manage their patients. Patient data gathered by the student is stored in a local server in Norwalk Hospital. This server is in communication with the server at Chicago Medical School. The link enables the staff to provide educational information for the students at Norwalk to review, in essence implementing informatics tools as a learning resource. This also enables the faculty to monitor the students' clinical experience at a distant site. In the final year, we teach students the role of informatics in clinical decision making. The present senior class at CMS has been exposed to the power of Medical Informatics tools for several years. The use of these informatics tools at the point of care is stressed.
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