InfoFair 2005 - Building Partnerships; Bridging Disciplines
InfoFair 2005 Abstracts
Informatics Exposure in a Coordinated
Health Sciences Curriculum
Training in medicine and pharmacy historically has been conducted with discrete and separate curricula, despite the need for a common knowledge base and for achieving an understanding of the discipline or specialty expertise of partnering professional. Typically, professional students receiving M.D. and Pharm.D. degrees and entering the healthcare team have been isolated from one another until they appear on hospital ward teams.
Many Ph.D. students conducting biomedical research within the shadows of the major medical centers, and likely supported by the NIH, receive no training in human oriented biochemistry and physiology, the pathology of disease states and therapeutic agents and outcomes.
In the past, the training of physicians and pharmacists included a
Latin-based language or coding system to allow communication between the professions to be encrypted from the patient. Even at the time of delivery of the medication to the patient, the label contained only directions related to the dosage regimen, but no information on the medication itself. Several elements of discontent provided the ferment for change. Patient frustration regarding lack of information about their condition or therapy, medical errors resulting from encrypted information or unclear abbreviations and a recognition that professional training covering all elements from diagnosis to therapy and outcomes should be a shared experience.
Accordingly, further changes are needed in coordinating training among the health care professions, encouraging continual communication between professions and developing a cost-effective team approach to health care. Within this framework, academic medical centers should be the stage for initiating the change and disseminating the information to the community. For example, a primary benefit of sequencing the human genome will be the genotype-phenotype correlations that affect drug responses, yet this information can not be confined to the academic silo and ivy tower.
Moreover, it should be packaged in a way that can be useful to the practitioner, and practitioners of the future should be suitably trained to process the data and appropriately counsel the patient. Genetic counseling as related to therapeutic outcomes will impact a great segment of the population increasing the demands for data access, confidentiality and therapeutic expertise at the grass root sites. The practitioners of the future must access this information, interpret it and deliver appropriate patient counsel. Hence, the academic health science library should play a dual role in providing an information resource to the practitioner and training its graduates with the skills to use the resource effectively.
Presenter: Palmer Taylor
PowerPoint slides
Keynote address RealMedia Video
Meet the Experts Panel Discussion
Local panelists join Dr. Taylor in discussing issues related to interdisciplinary training for the health sciences professions. The panel moderator is Wayne J. Peay. Panelists include Susan Beck, Ph.D., R.N.,
Donald Blumenthal, Ph.D.,
Lynn Jorde, Ph.D. and
Larry Reimer, M.D.
Meet the Experts panel discussion RealMedia Video
Noon Exhibits
From noon to 1:00 PM on the main level of the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, InfoFair participants can visit with representatives from the University of Utah Office of Software Licensing and the University of Utah Bookstore. Representatives will be available to answer your questions about the products they sell.
The University of Utah Office of Software Licensing will display many of today's popular software products available to University students, staff, and faculty at reasonable prices. Most packages are discounted up to 50% from retail prices. Some of the more popular products sold are Adobe: Acrobat, Creative Suite Premium, Macromedia: Studio, Studio with Flash Pro, Microsoft: Office, Windows XP Upgrade, McAfee: Anti-Virus Products, and more. For more information on OSL visit their website or email them at osl@utah.edu or call 801-585-0675.
The electronic experts from the University of Utah Bookstore will be available to answer your questions about merchandise that is sold through the bookstore. They will be demonstrating some of the more popular handheld and mobile computing devices. Some of the devices on display will be from manufacturers such as Palm, Dell, Hewlett Packard, etc. The bookstore personnel will also talk about some really hot deals, up coming sales events, and how to purchase your new computer from the "Big Buy." You can find more information about the University of Utah Bookstore by visiting their website or calling 801-581-6325.
Multidisciplinary Use of New Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB) Clinical Area
With the completion of the new Health Sciences Education Building, all health sciences disciplines will have access to the clinical area. This space is designed to simulate an outpatient clinic setting and to be used as an instructional space or as an examination space. This is new to the health sciences campus. In the past the educational programs have used off hours clinic time and the College of Nursing's in-patient simulation space. The presenters will describe the School of Medicine's and the College of Nursing's plans to use the clinical area in their curriculums.
At the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Describe how the Clinical area will be used for the Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE) required of medical students.
- Describe the medical students' use during the Physical Diagnosis course.
- Describe how the College of Nursing will use the Clinical are for Standardized Patient Examinations.
- Describe the nurse practitioner and pharmacy students' use during the Adult Assessment and Health Promotion course.
Presenter: Sandra Haak, APRN, Ph.D.
and Caroline Milne, M.D.
Haak PowerPoint slides
Milne PowerPoint slides
Clinical Area RealMedia Video
New Technologies in the Health Sciences Education Building (HSEB)
As the new HSEB construction nears completion, the Eccles Library is preparing to assist health sciences faculty, students and staff take full advantage of the technologies incorporated into the building. The presenters will provide an overview of the building and highlight it's teaching and learning technologies. The new classrooms will be described, with demonstration of the teaching podium used to control the computing, projection, and sound system in each room. It will be explained how the building's wireless (and wired) network allows users to work and interact throughout the building. Specialized computer laboratories and distance education classrooms, designed to provide enhanced teaching and learning spaces, will be highlighted. Discussion of the high tech clinical skills area will be detailed. Use of innovative technologies, including TabletPCs, USB memory keys, Webcasting, and new video-conferencing tools will also be covered in the presentation.
Presenters: Nancy T. Lombardo, Wayne J. Peay, and Hang Wong
PowerPoint slides
Peay
Lombardo
Wong
RealMedia Video
Web Gallery: Building Partnerships; Bridging Disciplines
The Web Gallery provides quality links to websites that discuss interdisciplinary health sciences education and the creation of partnerships between disciplines.
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