Students who are practicing health-care professionals may be exempted from this course at the discretion of the Program Director. This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of Local Area Networks. Through lecture and laboratory exercises, students assemble, analyze and troubleshoot their own computer. Components utilized include hard disk drives, floppy drive subsystems, SCSI drives, mice and keyboards, printers, modems and serial interfaces, video boards and monitors. This course introduces the student to the features of Microsoft Excel through the development of worksheets and workbooks.
Students explore cells, formatting, formulas, navigation, linking, and charts.
Required completion of an Excel project. This course encompasses the basic structure of WEB pages utilizing the HyperText Markup Language and JavaScript. Students publish WEB pages incorporating HTML, graphics, imbedded hyperlinks, tables, frames, and JavaScript. This course provides an introduction to Medical Informatics and Medical Information Systems. Brief overview of history of Medical Informatics is presented.