NIHI - McMaster CE Microcredential Course Unfortunately this course has been postponed. Thank you for your interest. Sessions are Live. Online. Interactive. Recordings are available for missed sessions. Instructor Dominic Covvey, FACMI, FHIMSS, FCIPS, SMIEEE, ITCP President & Director, National Institutes of Health Informatics (NIHI)   This course explains the concepts underlying medical care. It addresses the patient-doctor relationship, how people make diagnoses and information about interventions, including their benefits and their risks. The course will be of value for participants with many different backgrounds and interests. It will be important for anyone interested in studying, evaluating, reporting on, administering, providing solutions for, or involved with or cared for by the healthcare system. Though the concepts are important, they are of a nature that everyone can understand. The course will address topics that include: The purposes of health care; how we measure and assess the impact of health care (e.g., its benefits versus harms; what screening for undiagnosed problems is about; what diagnosis involves and how it determines the presence or absence of disease; how we interpret and use diagnostic test results and procedures; why some test results may be false alarms or give misleading reassurance; what the value, benefits and harms are of treatments, medicines and surgical procedures; how we use tests and treatments to avoid illness and maintain health. After completing the course, you will be awarded a NIHI - McMaster CE microcredential. A micro-credential is issued in a digital format, provides details of acquired competencies, and is shareable and transportable.

Required Background: None.

Required Reading: The Nature of Clinical Care Volume 1: A Gentle Introduction. The course will address most chapters in this book. Please purchase a copy via the NIHI website, www.amazon.ca, or www.amazon.com

Course Outline

• ​Session 1 - Getting Started
• ​Session 2 - What is health and what is sickness?
• Session 3 - How does diagnosis and testing work? (2.0 Hour Session)
• Session 4 - What is treatment and how do we determine if it will work?
• Session 5 - How do we assess if patients are being helped or harmed?
• Session 6 - A bit about drugs and how they work.

Learning Objectives: When you have completed this course, you will be able to:

1. Converse more effectively with physicians and other clinicians.
2. ​Communicate and work with clinicians.
3. Describe what clinicians do, what they are trying to achieve, and what they need to work productively.
4. Participate more effectively in your own and your family’s clinical care.

List of Acquired Competencies

• Enhanced communications with clinical professionals.
• Ability to better describe, analyze and document clinical practices and workflow.
• Better listening skills for dealing with clinicians.
• Improved ability to find relevant medical information.
• Improved ability to understand and critically evaluate the results of medical research
• Increased confidence and ability in presenting information about clinical care.

Intended Audience

• Industry professionals who need to interact with healthcare professionals regarding products and services
• Students and those without a health background considering a career in Health Informatics
• Educators in Health and Biomedical Informatics programs
• Journalists and news media professionals reporting on and writing about the healthcare system
• People planning to use AI systems and how to prepare to be a knowledgeable user of AI
• Lay people dealing with the healthcare system for themselves and/or for their family

Registration Fees

	Early Bird Fee Ends September 6, 2024. 11:59 PM ET	Regular Fee Begins September 7, 2024. 12:00 AM ET
Individual Rate	$599	$699
Group of Five	$2 795	$3 295
Group of Ten	$4 995	$5 995

 

All fees are subject to HST. HST#R857676894
Payment can be made by VISA, MC or AMEX.

 

Cancellation and Refund Policy

• Cancellations made within 3 business days of the initial registration are eligible for a full refund.
• Cancellations made after 3 business days of the initial registration AND before 15 business days of the course start date are eligible for a 50% refund only.
• Cancellations made within 15 business days of the course start date are NON-REFUNDABLE.
• NIHI reserves the right to reschedule or cancel sessions.

Course Access

Registrants will receive detailed instructions about accessing the online session(s) via e-mail 1-2 days prior to each session. Anyone registering within 2 days of the session will receive the message shortly after the registration is received. Due to widespread use of spam blockers, filters, out of office messages, etc., it is your responsibility to contact NIHI if you do not receive login instructions before the start of the session.

It is the responsibility of the registrant to ensure access to WebEx using the VOIP option.

Each registrant must register and participate individually on their computer. The online sessions are to be accessed and viewed only by the person who registered and paid for the online material.

All sessions are recorded and posted to an online portal for access later.