LF:BOVT041c Informatics in Health Sciences - Course Information
BOVT041c Informatics in Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicinespring 2025
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
In-person direct teaching - Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Aleš Bourek, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Erik Staffa, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Daniel Vlk, CSc. (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- MUDr. Aleš Bourek, Ph.D.
Department of Biophysics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: MUDr. Aleš Bourek, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Biophysics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine - Prerequisites
- BOEO0321 Economy and Store Operation I
Basic skills used in data, information and knowledge management and work with ICT. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Optics and Optometry (programme LF, B-OPOP)
- Optics and Optometry (programme LF, B-SZ)
- Course objectives
- At the end of this course the student will have to demonstrate during steered discussions insight and basic skills and habbits in data handling and processing of health related data, information and concepts as defined in the following paragraphs.
This course (in the part dedicated to healthcare informatics) is focused on discusing possibilities, limitations and risks of information and communication technologies in the healthcare environment. It is not predominantly targeted at teaching computer skills.
In the seminars devoted to "Health Informatics" focus is on obtaining insight and basic skills and habbits in data handling and processing.
Ths student will have to demonstrate the ability of making reasoned decisions in the following areas:
1. Searching, retrieval, storage, use of data, information and knowledge in medical decision making in diagnostics, treatment.
2. Improvement of skills in critical thinking especially in the area of Evidence Based Medicine.
3. Understanding the logics of the health and health care environment, communication with professionals and lay community (patients and their families).
4. Gaining innitial insight in the core areas of health care informatics competences (possibilities, limitations and risks) in use of information and communication technologies in a medical environment.
Seminars do not focus on training activities related to specific hardware or software resources. This is not a course in computer literacy (working with concrete software programs). - Learning outcomes
- The student will be able to independently and actively seek and use tools, procedures and processes facilitating the correct use of information society environment for more effective study of medicine and more efficient provision of medical services in individual medical specialties; The student will understand the possibilities and risks of digitization and use of digital information and communication tools in the process of providing medical services; The student will get a general overview of the benefits of the information society in the medical domain and will acquire basic basic behavioral habits;
- Syllabus
- In the seminars devoted to "Health Infomratics" focus is on obtaining insight and basic skills and habbits in data handling and processing: 1. Searching, retrieval, storage, use of data, information and knowledge in medical decision making in diagnostics, treatment.
- 2. Improvement of skills in critical thinking.
- 3. Understanding the logics of the health and health care environment, communication with professionals and lay community (patients and their families).
- 4. Gaining innitial insight in the core areas of health care informatics competences (possibilities, limitations and risks) in use of information and communication technologies in a medical environment.
- It does not focus on training activities related to specific hardware or software resources. This is not a course in computer literacy (working with concrete software programs). Basic overview of the courses may be found through the use of the MS Powerpoint presentations available through links at the bottom of the WWW document located at http://www.med.muni.cz/~bourek
- Teaching methods
- practicals / moderated discussion
- Assessment methods
- Teaching is provided in "seminar/workshop" format. Attendance of the seminars is mandatory. Obtained level of knowledge and understanding of the subject of the seminars will be verrified by short "rhetorical excercises" of the students demonstrating the level of understanding of the subject of the seminar. Teaching is termiinated by successfully passing all seminars and is credited. and ended by a colloquium.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 30. - Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
- Teacher's information
- http://www.med.muni.cz/~bourek/
Courses are held in the computer lab Kamenice 126/3, 3rd. floor Additional verified study materials are available at: https://www.ahrq.gov/ (search for "informatics" and "Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)")
- Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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