Medical Informatics: The Essentials

by F . T . De Dombal (Author)

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  Paperback
  1996

  $3.26

  Recent GMC guidelines included a specific recommendation that all medical students and others in health care should have a working knowledge of Information Technology. This small book and accompanying disk of practical exercises has been specifically written with this in mind and provides a basic introductory text for the 'informatically challenged'. Tim de Dombal set up the first information science course for medical students in Leeds, and several other universities have since adopted it. The General Medical Council now requires medical students to be taught the essentials of information science and technology, and this book is effectively the 'book of the course'. It has considerable potential in allied health disciplines only because of its clinical bias. It is not an abstract, theoretical book but relates the science and technology to clinical situations, thus making it more attractive to the medical undergraduate.