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Quarters

PLEASE NOTE THAT AS OF NOVEMBER, 2007 DHSI COURSES WILL FOLLOW THE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH SCHEDULE (CORRECT DATES BELOW).

1st Quarter - 8/27/07-10/26/07

2nd Quarter- 10/25/07-12/21/07

3rd Quarter- 1/22/08-3/14/08

4th Quarter- 3/24/08-5/16/08

DHSI students should log on to: Confluence for course specific information.

CORE COURSES

Below is a list of the core didactic experiences, laid out in the sequence in which they are taken.
You can also view a 2-D graphic of the schedule.

Please be advised that the information cited below *faculty/dates/times* is subject to change. Always check for correct information at the top of the page.

FIRST YEAR STUDENTS:

Summer - ME 600.707 Introduction to Public Health and Biomedical Informatics
Thursday, 9 -12, Room 1- 500A (Lehmann)

First quarter - ME 600.703 Health Sciences Informatics Evaluation
Mon 9:30 -12:30 Welch Library Mezzanine (Roderer)

Review of health information systems through case studies in the design and evaluation processes. The course presents a framework for design of systems based on user needs, functions performed, related information activities, available technology, etc. Skills taught include the use of measures and methods for qualitative and quantitative evaluation of information systems, including cost, performance, effectiveness and benefit/outcome determination.

Second quarter - ME 600.700 Health Sciences Informatics Systems
Tues, Thurs 9-10:30 PCTB Room 206B (Miller)

A review of health information systems, such as patient record, patient monitoring, imaging, public health, educational, bioinformatics and scholarly systems. This offering teaches the core architectures and technologies of these core systems, focusing on commonalities and differences and design.

Third quarter- ME 600.702 Health Sciences Informatics Knowledge Engineering
and Decision Support

Tues, 9 -12:00 Room 1-500A, 2024 Bldg (Lehmann)

This course provides a framework for understanding decision support in the workflow of the health sciences. The focus is on the types of support needed by different decision makers, and the features associated with those types of support. A variety of decision support algorithms is discussed, examining advantages and disadvantages of each, with a strong emphasis on decision analysis as the basic science of decision making. Students are expected to demonstrate facility with one algorithm in particular through the creation of a working prototype, and to articulate the evidence for efficacy and effectiveness of various types of decision support in health sciences and practice, in general.

ALL quarters:-ME 600.704 Health Sciences Informatics Fellows' Seminar
Friday 9-10:30 ROOM 1-500Q in 2024 Bldg (Lehmann)

Grant writing; software engineering ethics; informatics journal club; research proposal defense.

First year fellows are required to present at Bookclub twice. In Dec/Jan you will present your literature review and in April/May your research design. Dr. Lehmann will work with each of you to schedule. You will need to submit copies of your presentation to the Program Coordinator and mark it on your progress template.

ME 600.803 Health Sciences Informatics Research in Progress
Harold Lehmann, MD, PhD; Robert Miller, MD
Friday 12:15 -1:30 Sheldon Hall, Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street
Presentations by local and guest faculty on ongoing and completed research projects in informatics.

ME 600.804 Health Sciences Informatics Mentored Research
A two-year process, culminating in manuscript submission for publication in an informatics journal. Choice of research topic is due at the end of first Quarter; background reading is due at the end of second Quarter; research plan is due for defense at the end of fourth Quarter. Work continues through the summer and next three Quarters; initial report is due with submission to the annual meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association in third Quarter; final manuscript is due at end of fourth Quarter of second year.

ME 600.805 Health Sciences Informatics Information Technology Practicum
Harold Lehmann, MD PhD course director ( hours to be arranged)

DHSI students must take 2 QUARTERS of PRACTICA DURING THE TWO-YEAR PROGRAM

Students seek experiences in ongoing information technology sites at Hopkins and at other locations for at least one day a week. The practicum preceptor is responsible for ensuring that a meaningful work group is chosen, and negotiates with the student the appropriate practicum report. The work group leader supervises the student on a day-to-day basis. Students attend requisite meetings and perform requisite activities as needed.

SECOND YEAR STUDENTS:
Summer - HPM 309.86 Nationwide and Global Health Information Exchanges
MTWHF, 9 - 4 for 1 week (Orlova)
First quarter - ME 600.708 Standards in Health Information Systems
MW 12:45-2:00 Room 1-500A, 2024 East Monument Street (Orlova)

The purpose of this course is to learn the data, information, and knowledge standards critical to the successful implementation of local, regional, and national health-related information systems. Target competencies are to identify the appropriate level of HITSP standards for an informatics problem, and select the appropriate standard within that level; create use cases and an organizational process to define an interoperability standard for a specific healthcare/regional situation; participate in a national standards-creation process.

Second quarter -221.637 Health Information Systems
Internet (Weiss/Baqui)

Recommend population-based and provider-based methods by which data are secured and analyzed to provide indicators of health service use, health risk behavior, and outcomes relative to health status.

All quarters:

ME 600.704 Health Sciences Informatics Fellows' Seminar
Friday 10:00 ROOM 1-500Q, 2024 East Monument Street

Grant writing; software engineering ethics; informatics journal club; research proposal defense.

ME 600.803 Health Sciences Informatics Research in Progress
Friday 12:15 -1:30 Sheldon Hall, Bloomberg School of Public Health (Lehmann, Miller)

Presentations by local and guest faculty on ongoing and completed research projects in informatics

ME 600.804 Health Sciences Informatics Mentored Research
A two-year process, culminating in manuscript submission for publication in an informatics journal. Choice of research topic is due at the end of first Quarter; background reading is due at the end of second Quarter; research plan is due for defense at the end of fourth Quarter. Work continues through the summer and next three Quarters; initial report is due with submission to the annual meeting of the American Medical Informatics Association in third Quarter; final manuscript is due at end of fourth Quarter of second year.

ME 600.805 Health Sciences Informatics Information Technology Practicum
Harold Lehmann, MD PhD course director ( hours to be arranged)

DHSI students must take 2 QUARTERS of PRACTICA DURING THE TWO-YEAR PROGRAM

Students seek experiences in ongoing information technology sites at Hopkins and at other locations for at least one day a week. The practicum preceptor is responsible for ensuring that a meaningful work group is chosen, and negotiates with the student the appropriate practicum report. The work group leader supervises the student on a day-to-day basis. Students attend requisite meetings and perform requisite activities as needed.

Elective/Enabling Courses: 7 Quarters  

Selectives: (Unless placed out)

2 semesters of: 600.315 (E) Database Systems
770.515 (S) Database Management Systems: Structure and Design
605.472 (A) Computer Network Architectures and Protocols
1 semester of: 312.615 (P) Organizational Behavior and Management
761.731 (S) Management and Organizational Behavior
1 semester of: 771.713 (S) Business Processes and Change Management 770.618 (S) Project Management for Information Systems
600.201 (E) IT Project Management
595.460 (W) Introduction to Project Management
2 semesters of 140.621-4 (P) Statistical Methods in Public Health I-IV
140.651-4 (P) Methods in Biostatistics I-IV
140.632 (P) Introduction to the SAS Statistical Packages
140.646 (P) Essentials of Probabiity and Statistical Inference I: Probability
340.601 (P) Principles Of Epidemiology
340.645 (P) Introduction to Clinical Trials
340.620 (P) Principles Of Clinical Epidemiology
340.635.11 (P) Clinical Trials: Issues and Controversies
410.690 (P) Ethnographic Fieldwork
551.604 (P) Quantitative Tools for Managers
xxx.xxx Decision Analysis in Health Informatics
Electives: Remaining courses may be taken from the following or from comparable courses
(with Director's approval)
Area:

Informatics
140.662-3 (P) Spatial Analysis and GIS I-II
380.733 (P) Communication Network Analysis in Public Health Programs
730.713 (S) Data Mining and Disc Informatics
580.802 (E) Machine Learning
600.812 (E) Medical Imaging
260.602 (P) Introduction to Bioinformatics
260.655 (P) Protein Bio-Informatics
410.661 (P) Proteomics
600.145 (E) Introduction to Computer-Integrated Surgery
223.672.01 (P) Data Mgmt Methods In Health Research Studies (Holt)
600.706 (M) HSI Project
Computer science 770.514 (S) Systems Analysis and Design
600.321 (E) Object-Oriented Systems
773.719 (S) Information Security Foundations
774.716 (S) Security Architecture
776.716 (S) Knowledge Management Systems
635.431 (A) Information Systems, Architecture & Methodologies
Communication 410.651 Communication Strategies for Health Education and Health Promotion
410.650 or 410.650.13 Persuasive Communication: Theories and Practice
Business 312.623-4 (P) Financial Management In Health Care I-II
605.791 (E) Tech Business
312.617 (P) Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
312.790.51 (P) Managing Organizational Conflict In A Healthcare Setting
551.603 Fundamentals of Budgeting and Financial Management
770.600.71 (S) IT Budget and Financial Management
770.618 (S) Project Management for Information Systems - BE
600.201 (E) IT Project Management
Evaluation 309.615.01 (P) Introduction To Methods For Health Services Research And Evaluation
305.613.01 (P) Design And Evaluation Of Community Health And Safety Interventions
309.616.81 (P) Introduction To Methods For Health Services Research And Evaluation I, II
313.630.01 (P) Concepts In Economic Evaluation
221.638.01 (P) Health Systems Research And Evaluation In Developing Countries
380.611.01 (P) Fundamentals Of Program Evaluation
380.714.11 (P) Fundamentals Of Program Evaluation
380.612.01 (P) Applications In Program Monitoring And Evaluation
Domain 180.609 (P) Principles of Environmental Health I
188.686 (P) Clinical Environmental and Occupational Toxicology
220.601 (P) Introduction to International Health
300.600 (P) Intro to Health Policy
300.651 (P) Introduction to the US healthcare systems
305.623 (P) Fundamentals of Clinical Preventive Medicine
140.668 (P) Special Topics In Genetics And Genomics
410.620 (P) Fundamentals of Health Education & Health Promotion
410.650 (P) Introduction To Persuasive Communications: Theories And Practice
410.653 (P) Contemporary Issues in Health Communications
410.755.81 Health Communication Programs
550.63 (P) Public Health Biology
550.862 (P) Current Issues in Public Health
551.601 (P) Managing Health Services Organizations
300.651 (P) Introduction to the US healthcare system
(M)=Medicine, (P) = JHBSPH, (S) = Carey School of Business (formerly SPSBE), (E) = Whiting School of Engineering, (A) = APL
Course directories:
APL
WSE/CS
BSPH
BSPH
Carey
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/Classes/Classes.html
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/courses/
http://commprojects.jhsph.edu/courses/
http://ocw.jhsph.edu/ (open courseware)
http://carey.jhu.edu/itsprograms/

 

Carey Business School Graduate Certificate in Information and Telecommunications Systems
Certificate course available, with approval of the Program Director:
http://carey.jhu.edu/itsprograms/


 

 


 

 



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