| Tobacco Cessation | |
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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 strategies designed to assist clinicians in delivering and supporting effective treatments for tobacco use and dependence. The site offers self-study lessons and activities, including immediate-response quizzes, treatment activities, four... |
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| MySmileBuddy | |
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Dr. Burton Edelstein-
College of Dental Medicine MySmileBuddy is a mobile application to guide health workers assessing a child's risk for early childhood caries (ECC or severe tooth decay) and counseling that child's family on preventative lifestyle changes. CCNMTL is partnering with Dr. Burton Edelstein of the College of Dental Medicine to propose an improved risk assessment... |
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Private Released: April 2011 | |
| MedSafety | |
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Anu Subramony et al.-
Department of Pediatrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons MedSafety is a study designed to teach parents and caregivers how to properly give antibiotics to their children, targeting adults with low health literacy. Incorrect dosages of child medication is reported to be as high as 50 percent, and thought to be caused by the complexity of pediatric dosing, confusing... |
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Open to all Released: February 2011 | |
| Dental Materials | |
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Dr. Richard Lichtenthal-
College of Dental Medicine Dental Materials is an online course used by students attending New York State Dental Center (NYSADC) institutions, which includes Columbia University, SUNY Buffalo, Eastman-Rochester, New York University, and Stony University. Funded by a grant from the New York State Dental Foundation, this course website offers students 30 self-paced modules on... |
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Released: TBA In development. | |
| Health Information Technology (HIT) Certificate Program | |
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Partner:
Drs. Herbert Chase, Frances Morrison-
Department of Biomedical Informatics The Biomedical Informatics departments at Cornell and Columbia Universities jointly developed an online Health Information Technology (HIT) certificate curriculum to train workforce-ready individuals with the knowledge and skills needed to support the nationwide deployment of Electronic Patient Records (EHRs). Two simultaneous student cohorts (Columbia & Cornell) are trained online with... |
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Private Released: January 2011 | |
| Lanretam | |
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Partner:
Helen de Pinho and Lynn P. Freedman-
Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program, Mailman School of Public Health Lanretam is a web-based case study that focuses on the problem of how to reduce maternal mortality by ensuring the implementation of emergency obstetric services (EmOC) services. CCNMTL and Dr. Helen de Pinho, MD, MBA and Lynn P. Freedman, JD, MPH of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) Program... |
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Private Released: October 2010 | |
| Spotlights on Health and Rights | |
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John Santelli and Lynne Loomis-Price -
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Spotlights on Health and Rights is a set of four online learning modules developed by CCNMTL and the Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health. The modules are designed to help students who come from a wide range of academic and practical experience... |
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Open to all Released: September 2010 | |
| Biomedical Informatics Curriculum Development | |
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Partner:
Rita Kukafka et al.-
Department of Biomedical Informatics CCNMTL assisted faculty from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) to create sixty units of training material to be used at community colleges to teach six different Health IT roles. The objective of the program is to capture expertise held by content experts at DBMI into usable modules and formats... |
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Private Released: August 2010 | |
| Child Abuse Reporting Education (CARE) | |
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Partner:
Ann McCann Oakley and Shan Lal-
School of Social Work and College of Dental Medicine The Child Abuse Reporting Education (CARE) Project is an online resource designed to teach graduate students in the School of Social Work and the College of Dental Medicine how to recognize the symptoms of child abuse and how to report abuse when acting in their professional capacities. Social workers, dentists,... |
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Private Released: March 2010 | |
| Mailman Teachnology Fellowship | |
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Partner:
Leah Hooper-
Mailman School of Public Health The Mailman Teachnology Fellowship is a semester-long series of workshops and seminars designed to give faculty the opportunity to refine and improve existing teaching practices, explore new teaching modalities, and experiment with technology that supports exceptional learning outcomes. Faculty of all ranks at the Mailman School of Public Health (MSPH)... |
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Private Released: January 2010 | |
| PCORE Portal | |
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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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| Mobile Technologies for Community Health (MOTECH) | |
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Partner:
Dr. James Phillips-
Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health Mobile Technology for Community Health (MOTECH) is a initiative to test whether low-cost mobile phone technology can improve information-sharing among health care workers, and by doing so, improve maternal and infant health in rural communities in Ghana. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MOTECH is... |
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Private Released: October 2009 | |
| Multimedia WORTH | |
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Partner:
Nabila El-Bassel-
Social Intervention Group, School of Social Work WORTH is a computer-supported HIV prevention intervention for groups of drug-involved women who are on parole or in alternative to incarceration programs in New York. The goal of the intervention is to build positive peer norms and social support for HIV risk reduction. Multimedia WORTH is a collaboration between the... |
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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 Masivukeni is a counselor support tool for delivering an HIV-treatment adherence intervention in clinics in South Africa. It is a collaboration between Dr. Robert Remien, a research scientist at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, and CCNMTL. Masivukeni was developed with the help of counselors, nurses, and volunteers... |
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| 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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| 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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| Connect | |
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Partner:
Susan Witte-
School of Social Work Multimedia Connect is a a computer-supported HIV prevention intervention for couples at risk for HIV developed by the School of Social Work's Social Intervention Group (SIG) and CCNMTL. The multimedia intervention provides supplemental facilitator training and support materials and participant activities. Together, SIG and CCNMTL have created a framework for... |
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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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| 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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| ReliefSim | |
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Partner:
Ronald Waldman-
School of Public Health ReliefSim is a unique, web-based training tool designed to create a believable representation of the decision-environment confronted by refugee camp managers during a humanitarian crisis. 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... |
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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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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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| 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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| 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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| Comprehensive Understanding of Physical Examination | |
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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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| Heart Simulator | |
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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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Open to all Released: October 2003 | |
| Epiville: Disease Outbreak Simulation | |
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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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