IT for Doctors

Overall aims

This course will deliver a program to • Understand the possibilities of today’s IT • Maximize your potential with IT • How to use it for your career progression and

maintain your practice, education and life style.

• Understand IT as a enabler of processes in the health care organisation

Learning outcomes

• The basics of computing - What system do you need? • Office 2010 update and alternatives – exploring its potential • Order in chaos - Scheduling and time management • Passionate about paperwork –Document management

system made easy • MMC – Multi media confusion – beyond PowerPoint -

imaging , video and audio in medicine• Managing Data – database creation and maintenance• Making most of freebies • How IT works as a enabler

At the end of this course you will be able

• to understand the potential of the latest IT and how it can make your life easier.

• to make your home, office and your practice almost paperless with powerful indexing and search capabilities

• to create you archive of digital images that is searchable and also produce your first clinical digital video with editing and dubbing and produce your own platform that can be universally accessible

• to Create your own network to Do collaborative work as simple as 1,2 3

PREREQUISITES

• Participants must enroll for the course • Completion of reading assignments• Possession of basic IT skills with use of

Windows operating systems and internet access

Reading List• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Windows_and_Linux• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0• http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1273• http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7582/1283?ijKey=28705b

38f414b9e18fd651deec4f7813d72982ad&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha• CLINICAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN HOSPITALS: A

COMPARISON BETWEEN THE STATE OF IOWA AND TWO PROVINCES IN CANADA Int J Med Inform. 2005 Sep;74(9):719-31

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access•