Guide to the Care Provider Toolkit--EXERCISES

Eric Rose, M.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington
Clinical Informaticist, University of Washington Physicians Network

Here are a few practice exercises for you to try. They will hone your skills both at navigating the web as well as at learning where to look for various types of medical content. Each exercise presents a scenario where a particular type of medical information is required. The exercise consists of getting the information through the Care Provider Toolkit.

If you get stuck, hints are available. The hints will guide you through one way to get the information required. Of course, there is significant overlap in the content of different information sources available through Healthlinks, so there will often be multiple solutions to any exercise--the hints show you just one per exercise.

When you go to the exercises, you'll see your browser window
divided into frames, looking a lot like this:

The links below take you to the exercises.
GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

In this frame, the problem will be described. There will also be a link back to this page, the "main exercise page."	This frame will, as you begin each exercise, display the Care Provider Toolkit. You may freely navigate within this page, throughout the WWW.
This is the "hints" frame. If you need help, it will show you--one link at a time--how to get to the information needed to complete the exercise.

EXERCISE 1
(drug-drug interactions)

EXERCISE 2
(find recent HRT study)

EXERCISE 3
(otitis media guidelines)

EXERCISE 4
(journal search by author)

EXERCISE 5
(patient ed-depression)

EXERCISE 6
(diet & DM nephropathy)

EXERCISE 7
(coronary disease risk)

EXERCISE 8
(vaccine contraindications)

EXERCISE 9
(nutrition information)

EXERCISE 10
(c-section technique)