Multi-disciplinary Medical Case Study Development For First Year Medical Students
Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Medical Library Association, Washington, DC, May 2004
Authors:
Dan Kipnis, MSI; Anthony J. Frisby, PhD; Liz Mikita, MLS
Academic & Instructional Support & Resources
Abstract:
The first formal medical informatics class at Jefferson Medical College was created in 1987. Initially a traditional combination of lectures and hands-on workshops, the course was redesigned in 1996 to be a single two-hour lecture and 9 self-paced computer-based learning hours.
In 2003 the Jefferson Medical College curriculum was changed from a traditional core study in the basic sciences during the first year to a system-based model. At this time many free-standing courses such as medical informatics were integrated into a new course, Medical Practice for the 21st Century. The content presented in the new course included medical informatics, medical ethics & humanities, biostatistics, health policy, and clinical history and examination skills. Each of these courses presented relevant content in synch with the body system functions of the new combined gross anatomy, histology, biochemistry, and physiology course, Human Form and Development.
This poster will describe the history of the medical informatics course and the process of designing the case studies to fit into the new course management system, and will review the experiences of the librarians involved.
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