Using Concept Markers to Find Genetics Content in a Medical School Curriculum
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At a recent Vanderbilt University School of Medicine (VUSM) curriculum retreat, a faculty member asked, "How well and where are we covering genetics in our curriculum?" This followed a proposal to develop a free-standing genetics course.At the time this question was posed, we were completing development of KnowledgeMap (KM) concept indexer. KM identifies UMLS concepts in free-text medical documents (such as curriculum handouts) and was designed for concept-based searching of online medical school curriculum.We have nearly 80% of VUMC lecture content of the first two years available in digital form.We used a subset of these documents and two possible sources of markers for genetics content to evaluate the utility of KM to address the aforementioned genetics question.
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