BMI Course Information
BMI 541 Cognition and Decision Making in Healthcare (3)
Instructor Information |
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Fall 2009 |
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Spring 2009 |
Course not offered |
Catalog Description
Conceptual and methodological issues in cognitive science and medical informatics, including design and use of technology in medical settings.
Prerequisites
Admission to any SCI graduate program
Textbook and Other Materials
D.A. Evans and V.L. Patel (Eds.), Cognitive Science in Medicine: Biomedical Modeling. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989.
Course Learning Outcomes
Students who complete this course can expect to:
- Familiarize participants with concepts, methods, and theories of cognitive science.
- Introduce students to issues at the interface between cognitive science and medical informatics.
- Elucidate through readings and discussions the different ways in which cognitive theory can be relevant to the practice of medical informatics and in turn, how medical informatics can meaningfully inform cognitive theory.
- Provide a forum for students to explore the ways in which cognitive science can illuminate aspects of their own research.
Major Topics and Time Covered
Cognitive science is a multidisciplinary field incorporating theories and methods from psychology, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, and computer science in the study of cognition. Cognitive science provides a framework for analysis and modeling of complex human performance and has considerable applicability to address a range of issues in informatics. Developments in biomedical informatics research have afforded possibilities for great advances in healthcare delivery. These exciting opportunities also present formidable challenges in terms of implementation and integration of technologies in the workplace. As in most domains, there is a gap between technologies and end-users. Since medical practice is a human endeavor, there is a need for bridging disciplines to enable clinicians to benefit from rapid technological advances. This necessitates a broadening of disciplinary boundaries to consider cognitive and social factors pertaining to the design and use of technology.
- Cognitive Science and Biomedical Informatics: Issues at the interface
- Introduction to the Theories and Methods of Cognitive Science
- The Nature of Expertise
- Diagnostic Reasoning
- Decision-making
- Cognition in Context: Naturalistic Decision Making
- Collaborative Cognition: Distributed Cognition
- Cognitive Approaches to the study of Medical Error
- Human Computer Interaction
- Electronic Medical Records: A Cognitive Perspective
- Comprehension and Medical Expertise
- Health Literacy
- Cognitive Usability Evaluation
- Usability and Patient Safety