Information Technologies in Health Sciences

Recommended Prerequisites

English language;Pathophysiology knowledge, pharmacology and pharmacotherapy; IT. 

Teaching Methods

The problem-solving classes aim to complete the lectures, linking of theoretical and the practical experience, for the expected level of professional practice in the future. Students will be placed in situations that allow them to promote, strengthen and implement the level of theoretical knowledge acquired.

Learning Outcomes

The discipline of information technology in health sciences has the overall aim - to build capacity for the pharmacist can provide:

A. Drug information to health professionals to support clinical decision and policy use of medicines

B. Medicines information and education to the patient

Specific objectives to obtain are the ability to answer questions relating to specific clinical situations, learning to:

A. Determine the actual need of the information requested

B. Formulate a specific database to that patient for that situation

C. Find information on available resources.   

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the concept of clinical information
2. Sources of clinical information
2.1. Resource types of scientific literature
2.2. Regulatory Information
2.3. Searching the World Wide Web
2.4. Search bibliographic structured electronic secondary sources
3. Responding to queries for information on medical conditions
3.1. Analysis and records of information queries
3.2. Assessing the quality of different types of literature
3.2.1. Evidence-based medicine
3.2.2. Tools for assessing the quality of the literature
3.3. Prepare an answer to an information request
4. Patient information
Medical writing.  

Head Lecturer(s)

Isabel Vitória Neves de Figueiredo Santos Pereira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 50.0%
Resolution Problems: 50.0%

Bibliography

Van Bemmel JH. Handbook of Medical Informatics. (http://www.mieur.nl/mihandbook/r_3_3/handbook/home.htm). Website v3.3 ed. Stanford: M.A. Musen, Stanford University; 1999.
Smith R. What clinical information do doctors need? Bmj. 1996 Oct 26;313(7064):1062-8.
Revere D, Turner AM, Madhavan A, Rambo N, Bugni PF, Kimball A, et al. Understanding the information needs of public health practitioners: a literature review to inform design of an interactive digital knowledge management system. J Biomed Inform. 2007 Aug;40(4):410-21.
Guyatt GH, Drummond R. User's Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice. Chicago: American Medical Association; 2001.
Sackett DL, Straus SE, Richardson WS, Rosenberg JM, Haynes RB. Evidence-based medicine. How to practice and teach EBM.: Churchill Livingstone; 2000.
Carneiro AV. Critical appraisal of clinical studies: practical tables. Rev Port Cardiol. 2005 Apr;24(4):607-14.