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Trends in Health Informatics (BINF40001)
HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Semester 1
Subject Coordinator:
Dr Guillermo Lopez Campos
guillermo.lopez@unimelb.edu.au
Administrative Coordinator:
Ms Claudia Sandoval
Overview
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Students will attend and participate in research seminars and tutorials organized by the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre in a variety of topics related with informatics in different health areas, such as mobile health, participatory health or precision medicine. Health informatics is a dynamic and multidisciplinary discipline and for this reason the seminars and tutorials will include those hosted and given by speakers and postgraduate students from the Health and Biomedical Informatics Centre as well as external speakers and seminars drawn from related areas and disciplines across the University and webinars offered by international experts from academia, government and industry.
In these seminars students will gain access to and insight about the current perspectives and developments of the discipline, engaging with a variety of researchers and different experimental approaches and methods to answer research questions in Health disciplines from an informatics perspective. Along with these seminars students will receive a set of related relevant prescribed readings from scientific journals associated with each of the seminars for analysis and interpretation.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject should provide the students with:
- an updated understanding of current problems in health informatics
- an updated understanding of the current methodologies used to solve research problems in health informatics
- the ability to understand research papers and reports in the area of health informatics
Generic skills
On completion students should have acquired the following generic skills
- Ability to read and understand scientific literature.
- Ability to analyse scientific data
- Ability to write scientific reports
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Biomedicine (Honours) or the Bachelor of Science (Honours).
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BIOM40001 | Introduction To Biomedical Research | February (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Recommended background knowledge
Health Informatics 300 level and related biomedical or IT disciplines.
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- Written report (500 words each) x 4 submitted during semester (50%)
- Written critical review of two selected journal articles (1000 words each) submitted by the end of semester (40%)
- 80% attendance and active participation in seminar discussions and all specified activities through LMS during semester (10%)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Guillermo Lopez Campos Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 18 Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Subject Coordinator:
Dr Guillermo Lopez Campos
guillermo.lopez@unimelb.edu.au
Administrative Coordinator:
Ms Claudia Sandoval
Time commitment details
18 contact hours with an estimated total time commitment of 170 hours (including non-contact time)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Health Informatics Major Health Informatics
Last updated: 3 November 2022