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Tufts Health Sciences Database: lessons, issues, and opportunities.
Full Abstract
The authors present their seven-year experience with developing the Tufts Health Sciences Database (Tufts HSDB), a database-driven information management system that combines the strengths of a digital library, content delivery tools, and curriculum management. They describe a future where online tools will provide a health sciences learning infrastructure that fosters the work of an increasingly interdisciplinary community of learners and allows content to be shared across institutions as well as with academic and commercial information repositories. The authors note the key partners in Tufts HSDB's success--the close collaboration of the health sciences library, educational affairs, and information technology staff. Tufts HSDB moved quickly from serving the medical curriculum to supporting Tufts' veterinary, dental, biomedical sciences, and nutrition schools, thus leveraging Tufts HSDB research and development with university-wide efforts including Internet2 middleware, wireless access, information security, and digital libraries. The authors identify major effects on teaching and learning, e.g., what is better taught with multimedia, how faculty preparation and student learning time can be more efficient and effective, how content integration for interdisciplinary teaching and learning is promoted, and how continuous improvement methods can be integrated. Also addressed are issues of faculty development, copyright and intellectual property, budgetary concerns, and coordinating IT across schools and hospitals. The authors describe Tufts' recent experience with sharing its infrastructure with other schools, and welcome inquiries from those wishing to explore national and international partnerships to create a truly open and integrated infrastructure for education across the health sciences.
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Author information
Author/s: Lee, Mary Y (MY); Albright, Susan A (SA); Alkasab, Tarik (T); Damassa, David A (DA); Wang, Paul J (PJ); Eaton, Elizabeth K (EK);
Affiliation: Office of Educational Affairs, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
Grants: 1D43 TW01083-01 (Agency:FIC NIH HHS) ; G08 LM05774-01A2 (Agency:NLM NIH HHS)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Review
Journal: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Acad Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 78 (issue 3) : pp 254-64
Dates: Created 2003/03/13; Completed 2003/04/09; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12634202, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)
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