Mattern W D, Wagner J A, Brown J S, Fisher-Neenan L
University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill 27599-7000.
Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care. 1991:323-7.
We describe the development of a computer-based representation of the medical school curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Over the past seven years the Medical School's Office of Academic Affairs has employed both relational database and text management software to design an integrated curriculum database system. Depending on the function selected--exploring the curriculum, searching through course outlines, retrieving elective descriptions, identifying teaching faculty, or searching for specific topics--either text management or relational database management routines are activated in a manner transparent to the user. Initial evaluation of the system has been positive but highlights the need for a more robust biomedical language for use as a controlled vocabulary to index content. Efforts are now underway, with support from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), to engage other interested schools in the U.S. and Canada in collaborating on further development of a system.
我们描述了北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC-CH）医学院课程基于计算机的呈现方式的开发过程。在过去七年中，医学院学术事务办公室使用关系数据库和文本管理软件来设计一个综合课程数据库系统。根据所选功能——探索课程、搜索课程大纲、检索选修课程描述、确定教学教员或搜索特定主题——文本管理或关系数据库管理程序会以用户透明的方式激活。对该系统的初步评估是积极的，但也凸显了需要一种更强大的生物医学语言作为受控词汇来索引内容。目前，在美国医学院协会（AAMC）的支持下，正在努力让美国和加拿大其他感兴趣的学校参与合作，进一步开发该系统。
