Events

Intermedic: Journal on Internet and Medicina

Conferences

6th International Conference on Health and Medical Informatics Education
AMIA Working Conference August 14-16, 1997 in Newcastle, Australia
http://www.health.newcastle.edu.au/~wg1/imiawg.htm

Fall 1997 Conference of the American Medical Informatics Association
"Internetable Health Care: Systems that Work". Nashville, TN, USA, 25-29 October 1997
http://www.amia.org. Preliminary schedule in: http://medicine.ucsd.edu/f97/

MEDNET 97 The World Congress on the Internet in Medicine
November 3-6, 1997, Brighton, United Kingdom
http://www.mednet.org.uk/mednet/mednet.htm

Courses

Applications of Computing in Medical Education [FM-993]
Chair of Medical Informatics, Faculty of Medical Sciences and Center for Biomedical Informatics
State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brasil. August-June 1997.
Every Monday, from 2 to 5 PM. Beginning: August 4th, 1997.
Instrutor: Prof.Dr. Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD
Tópics: Areas of application and methodologies, including practical classes on multimedia development, production of CD-ROMs and electronic books and tutorials, biological and patient-encounter simulations, quizzes, use of WWW and Internet in medical education, programming in HTML, teleconferencing, advanced interactivity and distance education. A practical course, with student projects. A part of the course will be offered via the Internet (Attention: in Portuguese only]

Dissertations

A System for Teaching and Decision Support in Head and Brain Trauma, using the WWW and Artificial Neural Networks
Maria Lúcia de Azevedo Botelho. Masters Dissertation, Departamento de Engenharia Biomédica da Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil. July 25th, 1997.
Abstract. Demo available at {in Portuguese only]: http://www.ldc.com.br/mlucia