Health Computing: Integrating Computational Thinking into Health Science Education (University of Pittsburgh)

PI Details

Zhou Leming lzhou1@pitt.edu University of Pittsburgh Department of Health Information Management

Audience

non-CS undergrads

Discipline

Computing in/and sciences

Pedagogic Approach

1. Jointly teaching one course by two instructors from different background, one is from computer science or information science and one is from health science

2. Recruiting undergraduate students to serve as teaching assistants and applying peer- instruction

3. Integrating research components into undergraduate teaching

4. Providing field trips or lab visits to students

5. Delivering the course contents at various levels: modules in introductory classes, intermediate classes, and full senior level courses.

Challenges

Our students are really heavily loaded by their current courses; therefore, newly created courses cannot get many students enrolled. We will integrate the proposed materials into various existing and required courses so that every student in the program can learn the materials without taking extra courses. We are working hard to figure out the balance between the required contents and newly created contents for these courses.