BMI Course Information
BMI 301 Clinical Environments (3)
Instructor Information |
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Fall 2009 |
Course not offered |
Spring 2009 |
Course not offered |
Catalog Description
This three-credit course is designed for medical informatics students who have no significant clinical experience in the U.S. The course will introduce medical terminology and expose students to the clinical environments in which health care providers create, manage, and use clinical information. Students will be expected to attend lectures and will spend a significant portion of their time examining and reporting on different clinical settings throughout the semester.
Prerequisites
BMI 201
Textbook and Other Materials
The Language of Medicine, 8th Edition by Davi-Ellen Chabner, 2007. (Elvsevier, ISBN: 12:978-1-4160-3492-6)
Course Learning Outcomes
1. Students will be able to define common medical terminology and identify common suffix, prefix, and roots of medical terms.
2. Students will analyze and compare different clinical environments.
3. Students will evaluate technology and work process barriers in real clinical settings.
4. Students will formulate a strategy for overcoming barriers identified in those clinical settings.
Major Topics and Time Covered
- Basic medical vocabulary, terminology and nomenclature (3 weeks)
- Introduction to clinical reasoning and medical error (2 weeks)
- Privacy, confidentiality, and observation techniques (2 weeks)
- Organization of health care in the US (1 week)
- Clinical observations with discussion (inpatient, outpatient, ancillary care, pharmacy, ER, long term care, nursing, homeless/indigent care) (8 weeks)