A Computer-Based Clinical Teaching-Case System with Emulation of Time Sequence for Medical Education

Lih-Shyang CHEN
Yuh-Ming CHENG
Sheng-Feng WENG
Chyi-Her LIN
Yong-Kok TAN

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E88-D    No.5    pp.816-821
Publication Date: 2005/05/01
Online ISSN: 
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e88-d.5.816
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cyberworlds)
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Keyword: 
e-Learning in medical education,  e-Learning,  cyberworlds for education,  computer education,  

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Summary: 
In medical education, many of computerized Problem-Based Learning (PBL) systems are used into their training curricula. But these systems do not truly reflect the situations which practitioners may actually encounter in a real medical environment, and hence their effectiveness as learning tools is somewhat limited. Therefore, the present study analyzes the computerized PBL teaching case, and considers how a clinical teaching case can best be presented to the student. Specifically, this paper attempts to develop a web-based PBL system which emulates the real clinical situation by introducing the concept of a "time sequence" within each teaching case. The proposed system has been installed in the medical center of National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan for testing purposes. The participants in this study were 50 of 5th grade (equivalent to 1st grade students in a medical school of the American medical education system) students for the evaluation process. Some experiments are conducted to verify the advantages of designing teaching cases with the concept of the "time sequence."

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