Lectures in the amphitheater, education and practice in the laboratory.

Attendance required only for laboratory exercises.

Use of personal workstations (PCs) per person.

Communication with students through the educational platform e-class for the information of the students, the projection and distribution of the slides of the lectures, the provision of educational material the assignment and the reception of assignments to the students. 

Short answer questions,

Public presentation of work,

Problem solving.

The course consists the basic introductory course in ICT found in the medical field.

The course material aims to understand the operation of PCs as individual units and as building blocks of the World Wide Web with an emphasis on their use in medical science in general. It also refers to the organization and processing of data that respond to everyday practice such as organized data storage, working with diagnostic images and secure navigation for searching information on the Internet. In this sense, the course is the basis on which the student will understand the existing computer technology and its application to simple everyday computer problems that he may face.

Finally, the aim of the course is for students to understand the available technological material for data processing and information retrieval and its use in medical practice and research.

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to: 

• Understands the operation of the PC as a programmable machine.
• Understands the potential security risks and that the PC may be exposed to in individual and network operation.
• Has knowledge of the individual components ( hardware and software ) that make up a personal computer and the basic functions provided by the operating system through the graphical user interface and command line.
• Is able to distinguish the risk of job and data loss from non-compliance with safe operation of PC
• Uses workbook creation and editing programs ( MS Excel , LO Calc ) for data processing and display.
• Uses digital image editing software ( ImageJ ) for digital image processing (noise reduction, image contrast enhancement by setting appropriate window / level values , automatic enumeration of interest structures, physical scale input, and physical scale image measurements.
• Uses the integrated python program development environment to create simple string processing programs that represent genes.

1. Evolution of computers. Historical review.
2. Structure and operation of the PC.
3. Principles of Operating Systems.

Command line / graphical interface operating system .

Windows 7 Professional – Open Source Operating Systems: Linux 

4. Basic Programming Principles – Programming Languages.
5. Word processing – MS Word 2019.
6. MS data processors Excel
7. Basic principles for creating scientific presentations – PowerPoint 2010.
8. Computer Networking Principles Internet – Internet the World Wide Web.
9. Viruses & Malware.
10. Security in the use of PC systems.
11. Digital data organization processing using PC.
12. Introduction to digital image editing with ImageJ .
13. Introduction to Python programming .
14. Introduction to Engineering Learning and Artificial Intelligence Techniques and their use in Medicine
15. Demonstration of an Integrated Health Information System “ASKLIPIOS” at GUHOL.
16. Demonstration of Laboratory Examination Management Information System at GUHOL.

-Proposed Bibliography: 

Bozanis Panagiotis D., “Introduction to Informatics and Computers”, A. Tziola & Sons Publications SA

Alan Evans, Kendall Martin , Mary Anne Poatsy “Introduction to Informatics” Theory and Practice, Kritiki Publications 2014.

-Related scientific journals: –