Wayne Wilson wrote: >Jim Self wrote: >> >> >> The thing that has really captured my attention in this arena lately has >> been the activity of our students in preparing and/or gathering these type >> of reference materials into comprehensive packages to help out each other >> and our clinicians. This represents a new wave of open source. >> >Well, that's been my focus, medical students. The availability of free >reference material, which we will augment with certification and >requirements logging applications (I have already found free UK logging >apps for two specialities for the Psion) is our thrust. However, >medical students turn into residents/interns/house officers and both see >patients, so the demand for patient record keeping to be integrated into >the logging apps is my current conundrum. The fourth year for Veterinary students is entirely occupied with patient care and our students essentially do *all* the patient record keeping on-line directly into our HIS with daily review and approval by residents and senior clinicians. The key for us is to integrate the handhelds with our HIS - this will eliminate double entry of notes along with people standing in line or searching for an open workstation to work up their cases. Incidently, some of our students approached the faculty about getting a site license for reference materials that they had gathered and thought were useful. The faculty's primary response was that the published reference materials were not as good as the information provided in class and that it sometimes runs counter the the best practice we teach. Consequently, it appears that the School of Veterinary Medicine will be developing its own handheld resources as part of the curriculum. --------------------------------------- Jim Self Manager and Chief Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)
