Course description

Course lay-out

The fourth course provides insight into the medical process and its context. The subjects that will be discussed in this course are all related to the medical process. Some of these subjects are:

• Classification Systems
• Information Systems & Medical Registrations in the Healthcare
• Knowledge Management
• Medical Decision Making
• Medical Ethics
• Medical Law
• Medical Recording and (Information Transfer)
• Patient Flows
• Structure and Organisation of the Healthcare
• Usage of Information acquired during scientific research

 

Educational goals

The goal of this course is to give insights into and deliver medical informatics knowledge about the medical process and the context. This course will pay a lot of attention towards the important parts of medical aid, process of diagnosis and treatment and the physician-patient communication. The clinical situation of the general practitioner will be taken as starting point. As a consequence the structure of the Dutch healthcare will be discussed. Furthermore some important juridic and ethical aspects will be elaborated upon. The skills that will be trained in this course are; academic writing, oral communication, searching for information in scientific literature and reading scientific publications.

 

Involved departments

• Clinical Informatics
• GP Medical Science
• Medical Psychology
• Social Medical Science

 

Evaluation

Evaluation of the course and assignments

This was the first course of the second semester. It was a relief that this course was not parallel to another course. For the first time it was possible to fully focus on a particular course. That does not mean that we could relax and slow down. We had to write a paper, a paper-based case had to be transformed to a computer-based case, an internship was followed, subsequently a report had to be written and last but not least an examination had to be passed.

 

The paper had to be written with another fellow student, which was judged by the supervisor. After the feedback you had a week to make some corrections regarding to the feedback received. The topic of our paper was the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and in particular the judicial part.

 

The computer-based case was very interesting. The paper-based version had to be transformed in a computer-based one. We had to do the case ourselves first, because we could even transform it. This assignment was done with three other students and finally the case had to presented to other groups. These computer-based cases will be used in Medical Science class.

 

Furthermore an short introduction internship has been done in a general practitioners office. The goal of this internship is to get in touch with the real world, to see how medical processes are initiated, continued, stopped, restarted and completed. All findings had to be written in a report and information flows had to be mapped. These findings were also presented to the entire group of students.

 

The course lay-out was good and it was nice to follow a medical oriented course. The internship was very interesting. In this course there were no difficulties for me.