eMicrobes: A Digital Library for Learning Infectious Diseases

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不断增加，对传染病和微生物学的坚定理解对所有医疗专业人员来说都是至关重要的。然而，考虑到该领域的大量信息以及受训人员和执业医生可用的培训资源有限，获得这些知识是困难的。 我们建议通过一个名为eMicrobes的数字图书馆来解决这些困难，该数字图书馆专为医疗保健提供者和学员而设计。这项拨款建议的目的是：1)建立一个广泛和易于搜索的互动案例研究和图像的数字图书馆，以加强和促进对医疗保健提供者的传染病和微生物学的教学；2)通过a)开发与NLM和其他医学电子数据库和应用程序兼容的稳健的资源元数据模式，提高该数字图书馆的价值和有效性；以及b)利用该元数据模式，动态地整合来自医学在线资源(如PubMed)的相关信息，以丰富病例信息；以及3)广泛传播数字图书馆资源数据，并为存储和查看数据提供可定制的选项，以便卫生保健从业者和受训人员在未连接到互联网时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不足的地区更有用。 EMicrobes数字图书馆将由一个由医生、一名信息科学家、一名医学图书馆员和一名医学教育专家组成的合作团队开发。这一倡议与应用组织与健康有关的目标是一致的，因为对保健提供者的培训是其核心任务的一部分。

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.