Description
A well-formulated problem is half-solved. Problem formulation and problem solving are important cognitive as well as practical activities in any given discipline. CDC’s Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program trains informatics professionals in solving clinical and public health problems through development and application of shared mental models.
This hands-on workshop will share concepts of mental models and the practical application of sharing them using a case-based method. Specifically, this workshop will demonstrate applications of shared mental models for formulating informatics problems by having participants collaboratively engage real-world cases in clinical and public health informatics. The workshop will be useful for clinical and public health leaders and managers seeking to articulate and solve informatics problems in their organizations.
Describe the new knowledge and additional skills the participant will gain after attending your presentation.: What will the attendee be able to do after being in your session?
This hands-on workshop will present a shared mental models approach to problem solving in clinical and public health informatics. The interactive, collaborative workshop will train participants in the theory and practice of shared mental models involving real-world cases to formulate informatics problems in their own and other organizations.
Methods
Over the course of 4 hours, this hands-on case-based workshop will set the stage through an introduction to this informatics workshop, followed by an introduction to problem formulation in clinical and public health informatics.
These introductions will lead the presentation of various informatics problem-solving paradigms, specifically the information value cycle (IVC) and the data, information systems, and context (DISC) paradigms. Each presentation will be coupled to a workshop participant driven activity facilitated by the workshop speakers.
These informatics problem-solving paradigms will lead to a presentation that synthesizes these paradigms into the IVC-DISC matrix. This workshop will conclude with a report-out by the workshop participants on their application of IVC, DISC, and the IVC-DISC matrix as well as reflection of these paradigms in their fields and projects.
Outcomes
As an outcome of this Workshop, the Workshop attendee will be better able to identify, communicate, and solve informatics problems through various problem-solving paradigms to improve the practice from a preset state to a future state.
The tools the Workshop offers to help Workshop attendees achieve these skills are an emphasis on hands-on instruction on problem formulation and various problem-solving paradigm tools, such as IVC, DISC, and the IVC-DISC Matrix.
There are three main outcomes-based learning objectives for attendees in our Workshop, as follows.
What will the attendee be able to do after being in your session?
The outcomes-based learning objectives for attendees in our Workshop are:
1. Conceptualize strategic approaches to solve informatics problems in a given informatics project.
2. Develop an informatics problem narrative to be shared with other team members and to a larger audience.
3. Use clinical and public health informatics mental models to formulate a given informatics problem.
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites to attend and successfully complete this Workshop.
Instructors’ Experiences
The instructors of this Workshop are from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division of Scientific Education and Professional Development (DSEPD). As staff of the DSPED they have extensive, sustained experiences with instructing various audiences, such as trainees in the Public Health Informatics Fellowship Program, on the topics of this Workshop.
Authors:
Sridhar Papagari Sangareddy (Presenter)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Laura Franzke (Presenter)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Dr. Jina Dcruz (Presenter)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Faisal Reza (Presenter)
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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