Course in Health Informatics - EDKAJ005

• Title: Course in Health Informatics
• Guaranteed by: Department of science and research (14-260)
• Faculty: Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 0
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:0/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
• Guarantor: PhDr. Dana Zdeňková

Annotation

Last update: Ing. Daniela Vyzrálová (29.04.2024)

The aim of the course is to familiarize students with basic terms in medical informatics, information systems and

basic sources of information.

Theoretical part with practical examples
1. Information and its types.
2. Information
sources: primary, secondary, tertiary.
3. Citation standards: ISO 690 01 0197, ICMJE Recommendations.

3.Bibliometrics and scientometrics: citation method.
4.Indexing, thesauri, Medical Subject Headings - MESH.
5.
Web of Knowledge, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Biological Abstracts,
Chemical Abstracts, Current Contents,
BiblioMedica.
6. Web of Knowledge: Science Citation Index, impact factor.
7. Evidence-based medicine - EBM.
8.
RIV.

Practical skills in working with scientific information
1. Introduction of the library as a modern information
workplace.

2. Interlibrary loan/reprographic service and its relation to searching in information sources.

3. Working
with electronic information.

4. Consortia.

5. DOI system.

Syllabus

Last update: Ing. Daniela Vyzrálová (29.04.2024)

In the course of medical informatics, students are theoretically introduced to the basic terms of the field and principles related to

scientific work and the publication of scientific results. They will learn how to work with professional full-text and citation and

bibliographic databases.