title: "Computers in medicine"--a course for students at the USD School of Medicine.
abstract: The University of South Dakota School of Medicine offers an elective course for senior medical students in the use of computer technology for patient care. The philosophy of the course, its current composition, and changes to the course in the future are described. By organizing topic information using computer tools for text, outline, data item, math, and image processing, students learn formats for information storage in the computer. In the near future, students will have the opportunity to make a hypothesis and test it with decision support tools that are present in an integrated hospital database.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Beauchamp
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003201:Computers; D004501:Education, Medical; D007256:Information Systems