Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation
Informatics Curriculum Materials


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More Information about CRMEF


The Residency Web Site
www.crmef.org


The Family Practice Center Web Site
familydoctor.org/fpc


The Residency Faculty
www.crmef.org/faculty.htm

Feedback or comments about the curriculum or this CD

Donald Nelson, M.D,
Director of Medical Informatics
DonaldAFNelson@cs.com

Charles Zelnick, M.D,
Director of Curriculum Grant Project
czelnick@juno.com

 Welcome to the CRMEF Curriculum CD!

What's on the CD?
The documents on this disk were developed in connection with a multi-year project to integrate medical informatics into the curriculum of the Cedar Rapids Family Practice Residency.

A variety of documents are included:
  1. An outline of the informatics curriculum, available in Microsoft Word (Curr13.doc) and HTML (Curr13.htm) formats. This is a recent version of a curriculum that has been frequently revised during the project.
  2. Statements of goals and objectives for individual topics. These are typically included as Microsoft Word (*.doc) files.
  3. Slide Shows for use in lectures and workshops. These are in Microsoft Powerpoint (*.ppt) format. In some cases, there are separate versions of the Powerpoint file for display and for printing as a handout..
  4. Text handouts. These are frequently produced from the lecture *.ppt files. But in some cases there is a separate *.doc or *.txt file.
  5. Homework or case exercises for the curriculum topics. These may be *.doc documents or spreadsheet *.xls files. The database topic has an example database *.mdb file related to the exercises.
  6. There are two interactive case exercises used in the Dealing with Uncertainty topic. These are in the form of Web pages (a collection of HTML files).
  7. A 50 item Informatics Inventory was developed to help us assess what our residents learned from the curriculum. A copy is included in the Inventory folder as a Microsoft Word .doc file.



How to use this collection.

Most of these documents are in raw form, developed for internal use in our curriculum and not customized for distribution. They are in various stages of completion and in some cases multiple versions are included.

The curriculum outline files are located in the root directory of the CD. Individual topics from the curriculum are in separate subdirectories (folders), usually named in a fashion that relates to the topic.

Most of the curriculum items, unlike this document, are not in HTML format. You will want to use an appropriate application program such as Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, or Excel to open the relevant documents.

Interactive Cases.

There interactive case exercises are used in the Dealing with Uncertainty topic. Click on the links below to run them in your browser.

  • The Case of Murphy Hobson
  • The Case of Lucky Hobson

If the links above don't work properly in your browser, look for the files in the Uncertainty\MHobson and Uncertainty\LHobson folders.


Credits and Disclaimers

The documents on this CD were created primarily by the following faculty members of the Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation.

  • Gordon Baustian, M.D., Program Director
  • Tony Myers, M.D., Family & Community Medicine
  • Donald Nelson, M.D., Director of Medical Informatics
  • Steve Sladek, M.D., Director of Ob/Gyn
  • Charles Zelnick, M.D., Director of the Family Practice Center
Some of the documents may contain items that are copyrighted by other individuals or institutions. Use of these materials beyond fair use for educational or study purposes may require permission of the copyright owner. The collection itself is copyright 2001 by the Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation.

You are invited to peruse and study the materials to understand our curriculum. We want these materials to be readily available for academic use. But if you intend to incorporate them or modify them for use in your own curriculum, please notify us and credit the Cedar Rapids Medical Education Foundation.

Redistribution of these materials, including them in other collections, posting them on a web site, or putting them to commercial use will require you to obtain additional authorizations.

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