| Mobile Technologies for Community Health | |
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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. | |
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| Multimedia WORTH | |
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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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Private Released: October 2009 | |
| Project Rebirth | |
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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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Columbia only Released: September 2009 | |
| SLATE | |
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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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Private Released: April 2009 | |
| Masivukeni | |
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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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Private Released: March 2009 | |
| PediaLabs | |
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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 | |
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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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Columbia only Released: February 2009 | |
| PCORE Portal | |
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Partner:
Pablo Joo, MD-
College of Physicians and Surgeons PCORE is a web-based portal providing a standardized curriculum to primary care students at Columbia's School of Physicians and Surgeons. The portal offers five interactive education modules on prevention, diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and depression. It also includes an electronic library and online evidence-based point of care tools and patient education... |
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Columbia only Released: June 2008 | |
| Connect | |
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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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Private Released: June 2008 | |
| MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative | |
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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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Private Released: February 2008 | |
| Virtual Microscopy | |
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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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Open to all Released: October 2007 | |
| Forced Migration Case Studies | |
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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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Columbia only Released: October 2007 | |
| ReliefSim | |
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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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Private Revised: November 2006 Released: November 2002 | |
| Virtual Techniques in Dentistry (VirTechs) | |
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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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Open to all Released: August 2006 | |
| Emergency Preparedness Directed Learning Experiences | |
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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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Private Released: April 2006 | |
| Advanced Practice Nursing: Mobile Decision Support | |
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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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Columbia only Released: January 2006 | |
| Personalized Lifelong Learning Plans for Dentists | |
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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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Open to all Released: August 2005 | |
| Image Annotation Tool | |
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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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Columbia only Released: January 2005 | |
| Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination | |
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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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Columbia only Released: March 2004 | |
| Heart Simulator | |
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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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Open to all Released: October 2003 | |
| Epiville: Disease Outbreak Simulation | |
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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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Open to all Released: September 2003 | |
| Cost Benefit Analysis in Health | |
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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 | |
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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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Private Released: July 2002 | |
| Nursing Clinical Rotation Palm Database | |
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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. | |
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