# Module 6 Overview

## Theme

Validation and clinical safety cases

## Essential Question

What evidence is required for trustworthy support?

## Module Components

- `Book prose`: conceptual framing, domain scenario, methods, and failure modes
- `Assignment`: evidence-backed production of a specific artifact
- `Slides`: presentation sequence for seminar or lecture delivery
- `Narration`: spoken version of the slide flow
- `Instructor notes`: facilitation plan, discussion prompts, and grading cues
- `Rubric`: criteria for evaluating the module artifact
- `Notebook`: executable lab aligned with the module theme using synthetic encounter records with symptoms, contraindications, guideline triggers, and alert outcomes

## Module Artifact

clinical decision support safety case with escalation, override, and monitoring requirements focused on validation and clinical safety cases: Build a safety case outline.

## Professional Setting

Students work as if advising a clinical informatics committee evaluating decision support before adding it to a clinician workflow. Their work must be intelligible to clinician, informaticist, patient safety officer, and EHR analyst.