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Millennium Training Sessions 2000
Millennium Faculty
This is the hands-on computing course offered at FIGO 2000. This was first taught at FIGO 2000 for delegates wishing to improve their knowledge and expertise with information technology. We divided the training into two levels of expertise, with each class lasting approximately three hours. The syllabus and curriculum we presented is offered below for the participants as well as our readers, and the outlines are linked to the URLs used in the course. Good learning!

Marshall L. Smith, Jr, MD, PhD
Program Director, Millennium Technology Forum
Publisher, OBGYN.net
Beginners/Intermediate: “Discover the Internet”
Intermediate/Advanced: “Create Your Own Web Site”

Beginners/Intermediate: 
“Discover the Internet”
Expanded Curriculum
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  1. General     (Michael Hopkinson CNA, SOGC)
    a. History of Internet
    b. Computer Requirements
    c. Types of ISP’s
    d. Types of Browsers
    e. Home Page
    f. Other Browser Functions

  2. Search Engines     (Michael Hopkinson CNA, SOGC)
    a. History, background
    b. Types
               i. Yahoo
               ii. Alta Vista
               iii. Google
    c. Boolean Searches, techniques
    d. Search Engines within Sites 

  3. Email     (Harvey Marchbein, M.D. FACOG FACS)
    a. Basics of Email
    b. Set up Account with Hotmail, Yahoo, OBGYN.net
    c. Open, Forward, Save an Email
    d. Attachments 
    e. Email Etiquette
    f. Issues of Concern with Email
    g. Attachments and Viruses
    h. Privacy, permanency

  4. Medical literature searches     (R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG)
    a. Register for OBGYN.net Gold (for Knowledge Finder, Cochrane Library) 
    b. Medline Knowledge Finder
    c. Cochrane Library
    d. Techniques of search for each

  5. ObGyn Resources, professional sites, associations, industry     (R. Daniel Braun, MD FACOG)
    a. OBGYN.net
    b. Journals
    c. Associations
    d. Industry

  6. Continued medical education (CME’s)     (Jeff Levy, MD)

  7. The future of the Internet and medical education    (Jeff Levy, MD)

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Intermediate/Advanced: 
“Create Your Own Web Site”
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  1. Advanced medical literature searches      (Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS)
    a. Medline Knowledge Finder
    b. Cochrane Library
    c. Evidence based Medicine
    d. Other ObGyn Databases

  2. Emailing with your patients    (J.W. 'Hans' van der Slikke, MD PhD, Obstetrician)
    a. Legal issues
    b. AMIA regulations and guidelines
    c. Security and other issues

  3. Website design and construction theory     (J.W. 'Hans' van der Slikke, MD PhD, Obstetrician)
    a. Do's and don'ts of your practice web site
    b. How to recognize "quality" on the Web
    c. Ethical considerations

  4. Building a professional web page    (Leonhard Loimer, MD)
    a. Selecting content
    b. Useful tools from the web
    c. Necessary utilities
    d. FTP and its use
    e. Mistakes to avoid

  5. Images     (Terry J. DuBose, M.S., RDMS)
    a. Retrieval and usage
    b. Real time images 
    c. Posting to web site

  6. Continuing medical education (CME’s)     (Jeff Levy, MD)

  7. The future of the Internet and medical education     (Jeff Levy, M)

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