BMI 630 The Practice of Health Care

• The underlying biology and manifestations of selected disease states;
• The information-gathering and reasoning processes used to detect, understand, and treat diseases;
• The health professionals who provide and support care;
• The clinical settings in which care takes place.

The objective is to enable non-clinicians to understand the context, the vocabulary, and some of the challenges for supporting clinical work in real settings with informatics tools.

Graded: A-F
May be taken only once for credit
Also offered as: BMI 530