Internet and the Web.
Web 2.0.
Searching health information on the Internet.
Quality of health information on the Internet.
Data, Information and Knowledge.
Scientific information.
Thesaurus and Medline.
Evidence Based Medicine.
Free Software, Creative Commons Licenses and Open Access.
Course Content - Part B
• Internet and the Web.
• Web 2.0.
• Searching health information on the Internet.
• Quality of health information on the Internet.
• Data, Information and Knowledge.
• Scientific information.
• Thesaurus and Medline.
• Evidence Based Medicine.
• Free Software, Creative Commons Licenses and Open Access.
• Guelfi M.R, Masoni M, Conti A, Gensini GF "Ricerca e qualità dell'informazione
medica disponibile in Internet" 2006 EDIMES Pavia
• Guelfi M.R, Masoni "Guida Internet per la Medicina" (free full text) 2000 Mattioli
1885, Fidenza
• Greenhalgh T How to read a paper 2014 V Edizione Blackwell Publishing
• Guelfi M.R, Masoni M, Conti A, Gensini GF "Ricerca e qualità dell'informazione medica disponibile in Internet" 2006 EDIMES Pavia
• Guelfi M.R, Masoni "Guida Internet per la Medicina" (free full text) 2000 Mattioli 1885, Fidenza
• Greenhalgh T How to read a paper 2014 V Edizione Blackwell Publishing
Learning Objectives - Part A
In the first phase of the course, students will acquire knowledge and skills needed to wisely use information and communication Technologies, whose integration is emerging as an important resource for the practice of medicine.
In the second phase, students will learn the conceptual framework and methodologies of EBM as a tool to promote the generation process of scientific knowledge.
The integration and application of these competencies are mandatory in order to put in practice correct methodologies for searching solutions in critical medical decision-making. The knowledge and skills acquired will give the foundation to take the lead towards a continuous professional development.
Learning Objectives - Part B
In the first phase of the course, students will acquire knowledge and skills needed to wisely use information and communication Technologies, whose integration is emerging as an important resource for the practice of Medicine.
In the second phase, students will learn the conceptual framework and methodologies of EBM as a tool to promote the generation process of scientific knowledge.
The integration and application of these competencies are mandatory in order to put in practice correct methodologies for searching solutions in critical medical decision-making. The knowledge and skills acquired will give the foundation to take the lead towards a continuous professional development.
To pass the exam the students have to:
Carry out all the mandatory distance activities according to the proposed deadlines. Some distance activities will assign a score. All the scores obtained will contribute to the final grade;
write a paper choosing from a list of topics proposed by the teacher ;
review the paper produced by three other students. After that, the student have to revise its own paper on the base of specific criteria provided by the teacher .
The student's final grade will be calculated by adding :
1. the scores acquired in distance activities;
2. the teacher’s score given to the paper;
3. the score obtained from the assessment of papers of other students and its own
Type of Assessment - Part B
To pass the exam the students have to:
• Carry out all the mandatory distance activities according to the proposed deadlines. Some distance activities will assign a score. All the scores obtained will contribute to the final grade;
• write a paper choosing from a list of topics proposed by the teacher ;
• review the paper produced by three other students. After that, the student have to revise its own paper on the base of specific criteria provided by the teacher .
The student's final grade will be calculated by adding :
1. the scores acquired in distance activities;
2. the teacher’s score given to the paper;
3. the score obtained from the assessment of papers of other students and its own
Course program - Part A
Internet and the Web.
Internet and its origin. TCP/IP protocol, IP addresses and DNS. TCP/IP settings. General concepts about networks. Internet connection of a computer. Internet services. The Web: http, hypertext, URL and HTML. Client-Server architecture. Cookies.
Web 2.0
From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Web 2.0 applications: blog, wiki, feed RSS, social bookmarking, podcast and Social Media.
Searching health information on the Internet.
Internet as an information resource. Structured and non structured information. Information Retrieval (IR). How an IR System works. IR System and the Web. Boolean operators. Internet searching tools: search engines, metasearch engines and catalogs. First generation search engines. Deep Web. Second generation search engines: Google. PageRank. Third generation search engines: personalization and clustering. Google Instant Search e Google Universal Search. Portals
Quality of health information on the Internet.
Types of health misinformation on the Internet. Criteria of evaluation of health information on the Internet. Operational approaches to evaluate quality of health information.
Data, Information and Knowledge
Data, Information and Knowledge. Data Management, Information Management and Knowledge Management. Tacit and explicit knowledge.
Scientific information
Properties of scientific information. Bibliometry: impact factor. The generation cycle of scientific information. The peer-review process. Primary and secondary literature. Grey literature
Thesaurus and Medline:
Thesaurus, MeSH. MEDLINE and PubMed. How to use PubMed.
Evidence Based Medicine:
Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence Based Practice. The 5A’s. The PICO model. The hierarchy of evidence: systematic and non-systematic review, randomized controlled clinical trial, cohort and case-control study, case report. Relationship between clinical problem and type of study.
Free Software, Creative Commons Licenses and Open Access
Commercial, open source and free software. Intellectual property and open licenses. The Creative Commons Licenses. Traditional and digital literature. Open Access. The “Authors pay” model. Gold Road and Green Road. Examples of medical publishers: BioMed Central, PLOS and PubMed Central.
Course program - Part B
Internet and the Web.
Internet and its origin. TCP/IP protocol, IP addresses and DNS. TCP/IP settings. General concepts about networks. Internet connection of a computer. Internet services. The Web: http, hypertext, URL and HTML. Client-Server architecture. Cookies.
Web 2.0
From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Web 2.0 applications: blog, wiki, feed RSS, social bookmarking, podcast and Social Media.
Searching health information on the Internet.
Internet as an information resource. Structured and non structured information. Information Retrieval (IR). How an IR System works. IR System and the Web. Boolean operators. Internet searching tools: search engines, metasearch engines and catalogs. First generation search engines. Deep Web. Second generation search engines: Google. PageRank. Third generation search engines: personalization and clustering. Google Instant Search e Google Universal Search. Portals
Quality of health information on the Internet.
Types of health misinformation on the Internet. Criteria of evaluation of health information on the Internet. Operational approaches to evaluate quality of health information.
Data, Information and Knowledge
Data, Information and Knowledge. Data Management, Information Management and Knowledge Management. Tacit and explicit knowledge.
Scientific information
Properties of scientific information. Bibliometry: impact factor. The generation cycle of scientific information. The peer-review process. Primary and secondary literature. Grey literature
Thesaurus and Medline:
Thesaurus, MeSH. MEDLINE and PubMed. How to use PubMed.
Evidence Based Medicine:
Evidence Based Medicine and Evidence Based Practice. The 5A’s. The PICO model. The hierarchy of evidence: systematic and non-systematic review, randomized controlled clinical trial, cohort and case-control study, case report. Relationship between clinical problem and type of study.
Free Software, Creative Commons Licenses and Open Access
Commercial, open source and free software. Intellectual property and open licenses. The Creative Commons Licenses. Traditional and digital literature. Open Access. The “Authors pay” model. Gold Road and Green Road. Examples of medical publishers: BioMed Central, PLOS and PubMed Central.