本课程是面向临床医学专业学生的一门必修的公共基础课，具有很强的基础性和实践性，其任务是使临床医学专业学生掌握信息化社会所必须的信息基础知识，培养学生熟练掌握计算机的基本操作技能，掌握基本的程序设计能力，使学生具有用计算机获取信息、加工信息、传播信息和应用信息的能力，熟悉信息化社会中的网络环境，为他们的自主学习、终生学习、以及适应未来工作环境奠定良好基础。

本课程使用现代化教学手段，采用大量案例和操作演示，引导具有较高起点的医学专业学生在学习计算机科学与技术的前沿知识的同时，注重对计算机实际应用能力的培养，从而达到培养医学生较强的信息技术素质的目的。

本课程40学时，理论20学时，实验20学时，2学分。理论课与实验课学时之比为1:1。 混合教学课时数（含学生自主学习时间）占总课时的比例：50%。

This course is a compulsory public basic course and has distinct fundamental and practical characters which aims to help clinical medical students(Excellent Innovation Class) to grasp the basic information knowledge required by information society, and the capabilities of basic operating skills and programming skills, so as to cultivate the capability of information obtain, processing, broadcasting and application, get familiar with the network environment, and lay a solid foundation for their self-taught, life-long learning and adapting to the future work.

This course takes advantages of the use of modern teaching methods and large number of cases and great amount of operating display to guide the clinical medical students with higher start point than common medical students to focus on practical application abilities of computer skills besides the learning of frontier knowledge and gain the target of having strong information technology quality.

It has 40 hours for lessons, with 20 hours for theoretical class and practicing teaching respectively, keeping a proper ratio of 1 to 1. The course credit is 2. The proportion of mixed teaching hours (including students' autonomous learning time) accounts for 50% of the total class hours.