Developing an Electronic Curriculum for Medicine and Dentistry at Columbia
Pat Molholt
Assistant Vice President and Associate Dean
Scholarly Resources
Columbia University Health Sciences
Abstract
During an extensive re-working of the curriculum by the medical school
in 1992-1996, it became apparent that there were many ways to improve the
delivery of education. Among them was provide access to the vast array
of images and vocabulary that make up much of the first two years of the
curriculum. Information technology was an ideal tool with which to do that
but technology was only half of the answer. Building a knowledge base to
use as the foundation of navigation through the curriculum was the other
part.
This talk will give a brief history of the objectives of the CHIPS (Columbia
Health Information PerspectiveS) project and where it stands today, a discussion
of some of the educational, technical, and intellectual challenges that
continue to face us. There will also be a demonstration of several parts
of the curriculum that are being used by students today.
Luis Gravano
gravano@cs.columbia.edu