Overview and Assessment Requirement

This tutorial can be used for a number of purposes.

One use of this tutorial is as a sampler of useful medical internet sites, another is to understand the range of information available to you in electronic form and yet another is to improve your searching and research skills in general.

The philosophy of OUM is that our graduates will be lifelong learners, a necessity to keep up with the continuing growth in medical knowledge and techniques.

Therefore, successful completion of the Assessable Assignment portion of this tutorial is a prerequisite for passing the Introduction to Medicine Module.

How to use this tutorial

This tutorial is designed as a series of web pages. You can work through them in sequence, using the ‘previous’ and ‘next’ options at the bottom left of each page, or you can jump around to particular sections that interest you using the navigation panel.

If you bookmark any resources you like it will be easy to find them again, without losing your place in the tutorial.

The sections of this tutorial are

Overview
Medical Informatics – what is it and why should I care?
Information Literacy – what is it and why should I care?
Resource Types
Searching skills, including framing questions
Evaluating the quality of internet information
Pitfalls
Citing internet references
Assignment for assessment

Select from the panel on the left to jump to a particular section or use the "next" option to begin working through this tutorial page by page.

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