Introduction to Medical Information Management

Catalog description

The Medical Information Management ( MIM 0100 ) course provides first year medical students a framework for understanding the organization of medical information resources and their use in solving health care problems. The Medical Center Library (MCL) reference librarians have designed this self-directed online course for first year medical students to develop skills for accessing clinical research literature that will directly inform their practice of medicine in an evidence-based manner. With the explosion of biomedical and clinical research information available, it is important that clinicians learn to efficiently use tools to find and manage this information. The skilled use of these tools is essential to the practice of evidence-based medicine (EBM), by keeping current with the latest clinical guidelines and research that will help enhance the quality of patient care.