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Evaluation of a knowledge-based tutorial program in rheumatology — A part of a mandatory course in internal medicine

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Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 1996)

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A serious limitation of medical tutoring software in Germany is the lacking integration in the university education routine. In this study, we propose a scenario for such an integration and discuss the results of an evaluation. The scenario is to complement lectures with patient presentations by the use of a training system showing the same cases in a formalized form, so that the students can consolidate their newly acquired knowledge. Then, the students may test themselves by solving a symptomatically similar case with a potentially different diagnosis while being criticized by the training system. Technical prerequisites for this scenario are a knowledge based training system for solving the newly entered cases that were discussed in the lectures and a case-comparison component for finding symptomatically similar cases from a large case base. Both are provided by the diagnostic shell box D3.

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Schewe, S., Quak, T., Reinhardt, B., Puppe, F. (1996). Evaluation of a knowledge-based tutorial program in rheumatology — A part of a mandatory course in internal medicine. In: Frasson, C., Gauthier, G., Lesgold, A. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61327-7_152

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