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Tobacco Cessation
Tobacco Cessation Partner: David Albert- College of Dental Medicine
Tobacco Cessation is an educational website that provides students in the Columbia College of Dental Medicine with multimedia learning modules on pharmacotherapy regiments for tobacco cessation. The site offers self-study lessons and activities, including immediate-response quizzes, treatment activities, four virtual patients, and demonstrative videos, which students are assigned to review...

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Released: TBA
In development.
Mobile Technologies for Community Health
Mobile Technologies for Community Health Partner: Dr. James Phillips- Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health
CCNMTL is partnering with the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health of the Mailman School of Public Health to develop, test, and disseminate a health information management system relying on low-cost cellular phone technology. This system, being developed in partnership with the Ghana Health Service, CCNMTL, and the Grameen...

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Released: TBA
In development.
Multimedia WORTH
Multimedia WORTH Partner: Nabila El-Bassel- Social Intervention Group, School of Social Work
Multimedia WORTH (Women On The Road To Health) is the web-based version of an HIV prevention program that teaches communication and negotiation skills, delivers health information, and facilitates empowerment and feelings of self worth to at-risk women in the criminal justice system. CCNMTL is partnering with the Social Intervention Group...

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Access: Private
Released: October 2009
Project Rebirth
Project Rebirth Partner: Faculty and Instructors- Georgetown University, Columbia University, and Project Rebirth
The Project Rebirth educational initiative aims to help students better understand the many dimensions of trauma and recovery following September 11, 2001. The initiative provides faculty partners from Columbia University and Georgetown University with access to hundreds of hours of footage from Project Rebirth, a documentary by filmmaker Jim Whitaker...

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Access: Columbia only
Released: September 2009

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SLATE
SLATE Partner: Deepthiman Gowda and Mary Jo Fink- College of Physicians and Surgeons
Sharing, Learning, and Teaching the Examination (SLATE) is the multimedia course website for Foundations of Clinical Medicine, a second year clinical skills building course at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.

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Access: Private
Released: April 2009

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Masivukeni
Masivukeni Partner: Robert Remien- Department of Psychiatry
CCNMTL and Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies and associate professor of clinical psychology (in psychiatry), received a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to create and pilot Masivukeni, a multimedia version of an HIV-treatment adherence program, SMART Couples, that has been effective in New York City HIV care clinics. The grant allows the program to extend its reach to South Africa, which has one of the highest rates of HIV in the world. Originally named SMART SA+, Masivukeni is a CCNMTL Triangle Initiative project that also aims to enrich Columbia courses at the Mailman School of Public Health and other programs focused on health disparities.

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Access: Private
Released: March 2009
PediaLabs
PediaLabs Partner: Rita Marie John, Mary McCord, and Arlene Smaldone- School of Nursing, College of Physicians & Surgeons
Clinicians require accurate laboratory tests to help them diagnose illness and screen for diseases. Yet, even the best laboratory test is not perfect; it can miss a condition or falsely report a patient as having a condition. PediaLabs is designed to improve graduate nursing and medical students' understanding of the...

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Released: TBA
In development.
REAL: Remote Electronic Arrhythmia Learning
REAL: Remote Electronic Arrhythmia Learning Partner: Kathleen Hickey and Mary Donovan- School of Nursing
Remote Electronic Arrhythmia Learning (REAL), is a web-based tutorial that familiarizes Columbia University medical, dental, and nursing students with the basic parameters and operation of internal cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). Created in partnership with Drs. Kathleen Hickey and Mary Donovan from the School of Nursing, REAL provides students with detailed video...

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Access: Columbia only
Released: February 2009

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PCORE Portal
PCORE Portal College of Physicians and Surgeons
PCORE is a web-based portal providing a standardized curriculum to primary care students at the Columbia School of Physicians and Surgeons and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The portal offers five interactive education modules on prevention, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and depression. It also includes quizzes, an electronic library, and...

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Access: Columbia only
Released: June 2008

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Connect
Connect Partner: Susan Witte- School of Social Work
Connect is a couples-level intervention for heterosexual couples at risk for HIV/STIs developed by the Social Intervention Group at the School of Social Work. The intervention has been proven to reduce risky behaviors in committed heterosexual couples, the fastest growing HIV-infected group in the US. Principal Investigator Susan Witte and...

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Access: Private
Released: June 2008
MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative
MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative Partner: Anke Ehrhardt- HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies
The MAC AIDS Leadership Initiative trains fellows from South Africa in HIV/AIDS prevention at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at the New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI) and Columbia University. The initiative is a 12-month training program designed to cultivate new leaders in HIV/AIDS prevention who will...

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Access: Private
Released: February 2008

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Virtual Microscopy
Virtual Microscopy Partner: Patrice Spitalnik- College of Physicians and Surgeons
In fall 2007, first-year students in the Sciences Basic to the Practice of Medicine and Dentistry (SBPMD) course participated in a pilot program to test a new virtual microscopy solution that could change the way medical and dental students learn about tissues. In addition to viewing glass slides with traditional...

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Access: Open to all
Released: October 2007

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Forced Migration Case Studies
Forced Migration Case Studies Partner: Neil Boothby- School of Public Health
The Forced Migration website contains case studies in humanitarian crises that focus on issues of protection and the moral quandaries of humanitarian action. Included in each case are authentic media resources that are strategically attached to parts of the narratives. The website also features a forum that provides students with a space for raising questions, completing assignments, and analyzing and critiquing any of the media resources or cases as artifacts.

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Access: Columbia only
Released: October 2007

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ReliefSim
ReliefSim Partner: Ronald Waldman- School of Public Health
ReliefSim is a simulation of a humanitarian emergency scenario. Students play the role of a health relief director and have a team of people they assign to assess the situation and attempt to manage the health concerns of the crisis. The educational goal concerns the challenges arising from prioritizing assessments...

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Access: Private
Revised: November 2006
Released: November 2002
Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs)
Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs) Partner: Dory Calev, Stanley Freeman, Richard Lichtenthal, Shantanu Lal- College of Dental Medicine
CCNMTL and the College of Dental Medicine collaborated to create Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs). This interactive web-based dental laboratory manual provides students with access to detailed instruction on procedures and treatments. The VirTechs collection includes video demonstrations, instructions, and supplementary materials for learning the dental procedures that are covered...

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Access: Open to all
Released: August 2006

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Emergency Preparedness Directed Learning Experiences
Emergency Preparedness Directed Learning Experiences Partner: Kristine Gebbie- School of Nursing
In order to serve New York City's need to develop a program of continuing education to prepare health professionals for potentially catastrophic emergency and terror events, Columbia University developed a series of web-based experiences on responding to radiological, chemical, biological, and conventional terror attacks from an emergency-preparedness perspective. CCNMTL oversees...

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Access: Private
Released: April 2006

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Advanced Practice Nursing: Mobile Decision Support
Advanced Practice Nursing:  Mobile Decision Support Partner: Suzanne Bakken- School of Nursing
Beginning in September 2005, over 300 doctoral and nurse practitioner candidates at the School of Nursing will use Palm and Pocket PC devices in three practice areas: depression screening, smoking cessation, and obsesity management. This National Institute of Health-funded project promotes evidence-based, error-free patient care for nurses in training....

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Access: Columbia only
Released: January 2006
Personalized Lifelong Learning Plans for Dentists
Personalized Lifelong Learning Plans for Dentists Partner: John Zimmerman- College of Dental Medicine
Supported by a grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), the Personal Lifelong Learning Project (PL3P) serves as a portal for post-graduate dental residents in the Advanced Education and General Dentistry, General Practice Residency, and Graduate Prosthodontics programs at Columbia. The goal of the project is...

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Access: Open to all
Released: August 2005

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Image Annotation Tool
Image Annotation Tool Partner: Letty Moss-Salentijn- College of Dental Medicine
The Image Annotation Tool (IAT) is web-based application designed for students and faculty to upload, organize, categorize, present and annotate digital images. The IAT provides students with a workspace equipped with tools to study images. Students also can annotate and organize images into meaningful categories to support their individual study...

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Access: Columbia only
Released: January 2005

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Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination
Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination Partner: Carmen Ortiz-Neu- College of Physicians & Surgeons
Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination (CUPEx) prototype is an online video-based tool aimed at improving the teaching and learning of physical examination skills to medicine, nursing, and dentistry students. This prototype module covers the cardiovascular system and features streaming video demonstrations, study guides, quizzes, and relevant anatomical, basic science, and...

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Access: Columbia only
Released: March 2004

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Heart Simulator
Heart Simulator Partner: Daniel Burkhoff, Marc Dickstein- College of Physicians & Surgeons
By modeling the pressure-volume relationship, the Heart Simulator contains parameters that students manipulate to simulate conditions and pathologies. Changing these parameters is helpful for teaching and learning the functions of the heart. It provides a continuous graphic output of the relationship between pressure and volume in the heart under varying...

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Access: Open to all
Released: October 2003

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Epiville: Disease Outbreak Simulation
Epiville: Disease Outbreak Simulation Partner: Dan Herman Lydia Zablotska- School of Public Health
Students play the role of a epidemiologist, gathering facts and deciding actions to curb an outbreak that has struck the fictitious town of "Epiville." The case study uses digital video newscasts and interviews and municipal websites provide information about commerce and diseases in an attempt to mirror real-life situations. Different...

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Access: Open to all
Released: September 2003

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Cost Benefit Analysis in Health
Cost Benefit Analysis in Health Partner: Joshua Graff Zivin- School of Public Health
A set of modules designed to give students an opportunity to experiment with cost benefit problems in the field of healthcare. The students will learn various statistical methods measuring quality of life, powering and sampling, collection and indirect cost data, discounting and sensitivity analysis. By working through the simulations modules...

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Released: January 2003
Archived, no longer available.
Pediatric Residency Program
Pediatric Residency Program Partner: Dr. D. Meyer- College of Physicians & Surgeons
The project provided an initial online architecture for the University's community pediatric training program....

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Access: Private
Released: July 2002

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Nursing Clinical Rotation Palm Database
Nursing Clinical Rotation Palm Database Partner: Sarah Cook, Suzanne Bakken, Lesly Curtis- School of Nursing
A personal digital assistant (PDA) environment will enable Nursing students to report on their experiences at clinical rotation sites. Both faculty and students will have the ability to track their experiences and generate reports on the fly. As a result, site and preceptor evaluations will be completed more accurately and...

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Released: January 2002
Archived, no longer available.