1. Was it easy or hard to use the various text and online resources to look up information? What did you like or what frustrated you about it?
2. Do you think it would be hard to learn how to use all these resources to be able to answer questions quickly while taking care of patients?
3. Can you see yourself creating or updating resources such as these as part of your future job?
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As we searched for solutions to various patient cases, it became obvious how helpful technology really is in the medical world. I found it frustrating trying to look up diagnoses in a pocket-sized handbook. With access to online medical sites, the time it took us to find a solution was minimized. Despite being unskilled with technology, I found the use of computers to be much more efficient and practical.
It was fairly easy to use the resources to find the needed information, however I was frustrated by the many confusing names of the various conditions and diseases described. The sites and pamphlets were very straightforward and well organized which was helpful. It might be difficult to look up answers quickly while trying to deal with patients or interns or whatever the situation might be, but I think I could look up solutions speedily and contact the patient with the results or solutions. I definitely don't see myself updating websites! The internet completely blows my mind! I have no idea how it works even though I use it so often! It would take an intense several year course for me to be able to create a website!
Looking up information on various cases yesterday made me realize how important researching is for doctors. Originally, I thought doctors pretty much knew everything and anything about medicine. I was completely wrong on that part. New types of medicine and treatment are published, and will continue to grow in the future.
I found the researching aspect pretty simple, seeing as though I have done research projects throughout my entire life. The internet was really useful, and I could already tell that it is going to play a major role in the lives of both the patients and the doctors.
I don't see myself updating information. I prefer to help patients directly, rather than indirectly.
1. Was it easy or hard to use the various text and online resources to look up information? What did you like or what frustrated you about it?
For a high school student who really does not come across medical terms and abbreviations on a day to day basis, it was a little difficult and fairly frustrating to come across words and medicines that I had no idea what it was, what the effects were, etc. I suppose I never thought about the various resources that medical students and doctors alike have to consult over and over again--I simply thought it was originally learned or a doctor had seen it all before be it in medical school or in residency. Boy was I wrong!
2. Do you think it would be hard to learn how to use all these resources to be able to answer questions quickly while taking care of patients?
Y-E-S!
The text and information was pretty straight forward... but only if you know what you're doing. I never knew there were websites that calculated the percent chance of a woman getting breast cancer!
I guess I always thought of doctors as knowing everything already because, well, because they are doctors. It never really hit me how much doctors have to research still until we were presented with several cases that had to be looked up.
I can't see myself creating such resources, but i could see myself updating them with new info.
At first it was difficult navigating the various websites and handbooks, but once I realized the system of organization it started to become an easier and quicker process. It would take much time and practice to be able to use the vast number of resources available on a daily basis during patient care, and it would be even more difficult to create or update resources.
I don't think that finding the disease or ailment would be all to difficult. However, deciding whether or not this disease or aliment is what the patient actually has is a whole different story.
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