Authoring Level 2 Course Overview

Estimated time – 30 hours

Evaluating Sources – Principles (ebook)

• How to select pertinent, credible sources to evaluate the validity of existing and potential content and to guide the naming and modeling of concepts (6 sources are evaluated)

Intermediate Primitives (ebook)

• Considerations when working with intermediate primitive concepts that are already present in the terminology (2 concepts need evaluating)

Combined Disorders and Temporal Considerations (ebook)

• Modeling concepts that represent combined disorders including those that require temporal considerations (4 concepts need creating and one concept needs evaluating)

Modeling Specific Disorders (ebook)

• Modeling of specific disorder concepts (5 concepts need creating and 4 concepts need modifying)

The Interprets and Has Interpretation Attributes (ebook)

• Modeling considerations using the Interprets and the Has interpretation attributes

Allergies, Hypersensitivities, Adverse Reactions and Intolerances (ebook)

• Modeling disorders that relate to allergies, hypersensitivities, adverse reactions and intolerances (1 concept needs creating and 1 concept needs modifying)

Other Clinical Finding Attributes (ebook)

• Severity, Finding method, Finding informer and Episodicity attributes are discussed

Understanding Conjunction and Disjunction (ebook)

• Focuses on how "and" and "and/or" can be used when creating concepts (2 concepts need creating)

Combined Disorders and Temporal Considerations Quiz

• Modeling interactive quiz to check knowledge of disorder modeling (8 concepts need creating)

Authoring in the Wild (ebook)

• Key principles to consider when managing requests

Module A Assignment

• Source evaluation assignments (Auto marked and Tutor marked)

• Disorder concept modeling assignment (10 concepts created or modified – Auto marked and Self marked)

Module A Webinar

• Tutor led webinar including practical exercises on source evaluation and disorder modeling (Preparation work before webinar – 3 concepts need creating and 4 sources evaluated)