Integrating IT into a South African health sciences curriculum

Author

Masters, Ken ; Oberprieler, G.

Author_Institution

EDU, Cape Town Univ., Rondebosch, South Africa

fYear

2003

fDate

11-13 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

222

Abstract

We describe the introduction of an IT curriculum to support a new health sciences curriculum introduced by the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT). By combining international and local research with an awareness of the South African context, problems of infrastructure, student needs, attitudes, and budget were identified and solved. We also detail two specific examples to illustrate the mechanisms of the IT curriculum.

Keywords

biomedical education; computer aided instruction; educational courses; health care; medical computing; technology transfer; South African health sciences curriculum; information technology integration; Africa; Cities and towns; Context awareness; Hardware; Horses; Hospitals; Information technology; Internet; Physics computing; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology: Research and Education, 2003. Proceedings. ITRE2003. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7724-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITRE.2003.1270607

Filename

1270607

Link To Document

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