eMicrobes: A Digital Library for Learning Infectious Diseases

eMicrobes：学习传染病的数字图书馆

• 批准号: 7211638
• 负责人: RAJESH T GANDHI
• 金额: $ 13.5万
• 依托单位: MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7211638
• 关键词: AIDS/HIV problem; Address; Applications Grants; Area; Case Study; Communicable Diseases; Compatible; Computers; Data; Databases; Devices; Digital Libraries; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Goals; Hand; Health Personnel; Health Professional; Healthcare; Image; Information Technology; Institution; International; Internet; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Librarians; Libraries; Malaria; Medical; Medical Education; Medical Electronics; Metadata; Microbiology; Mission; Numbers; Physicians; Professional Practice; PubMed; Resources; Scientist; Site; Specialist; Students; Terrorism; Time; Training; Tuberculosis; United States; cost; design; instructor; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With the growing number of emerging infectious diseases and global threats such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and bio-terrorism, a firm understanding of infectious diseases and microbiology is critical for all healthcare professionals. However, gaining this knowledge is difficult given the vast amount of information in the field and the limited training resources available to trainees and practicing physicians. We propose to address the difficulties through a digital library called eMicrobes designed for use by healthcare providers and trainees. The aims of this grant proposal are: 1) To create an extensive and easily searchable digital library of interactive case studies and images that strengthens and facilitates the teaching of infectious diseases and microbiology to health care providers; 2) To enhance the value and effectiveness of this digital library by a) developing a robust resource metadata schema compatible with NLM and other medical electronic databases and applications, and b) leveraging this metadata schema to dynamically integrate relevant information from medical on-line resources such as PubMed to enrich case information; and 3) To broadly disseminate the digital library resource data and provide customizable options for storing and viewing the data so that health care practitioners and trainees can access digital library resources on a local computer or hand-held device when not connected to the Internet, which will make the tool more useful in underserved areas. The eMicrobes digital library will be developed by a collaborative team of physicians, an information scientist, a medical librarian and a medical education specialist. This initiative is consistent with the health-related goals of the application organization since training of health care providers is part of its core mission.

描述（由申请人提供）： 随着新出现的传染病和艾滋病毒/艾滋病、结核病、疟疾和生物恐怖主义等全球威胁的数量不断增加，对传染病和微生物学的深入了解对于所有医疗保健专业人员至关重要。然而，鉴于该领域的信息量巨大，而受训者和执业医师可用的培训资源有限，获得这些知识很困难。 我们建议通过一个名为 eMicrobes 的数字图书馆来解决这些困难，该图书馆专为医疗保健提供者和学员使用而设计。该拨款提案的目的是： 1) 创建一个内容广泛且易于搜索的交互式案例研究和图像数字图书馆，以加强和促进对卫生保健提供者的传染病和微生物学教学； 2) 通过以下方式增强该数字图书馆的价值和有效性：a) 开发与 NLM 和其他医疗电子数据库和应用程序兼容的强大资源元数据模式，b) 利用该元数据模式动态集成来自医疗在线资源的相关信息例如PubMed以丰富病例信息； 3) 广泛传播数字图书馆资源数据，并提供可定制的数据存储和查看选项，以便医疗保健从业者和学员在未连接互联网的情况下可以在本地计算机或手持设备上访问数字图书馆资源，这将使该工具在服务欠缺的地区更加有用。 eMicrobes 数字图书馆将由医生、信息科学家、医学图书馆员和医学教育专家组成的协作团队开发。该举措与应用组织的健康相关目标一致，因为培训医疗保健提供者是其核心使命的一部分。