How students and faculty interact with a searchable online database of the medical curriculum.

Full Abstract

Many medical schools currently provide electronic access to their medical curriculum. In order to better develop and evaluate online curricular databases, knowledge of the interaction of students and faculty with such systems is required. The KnowledeMap application provides a web interface for students, faculty and administrators to perform NLP-assisted searches for documents from the entire medical curriculum. The pilot implementation of KM in a first year anatomy course was evaluated. Data was collected from the web-server log files over two years, a paper survey at the end of the course, and structured interviews with students and faculty members. The data showed complete adoption of KM. Analysis of usage patterns showed that most of the students chose to browse for current course material rather than to search for related medical concepts in future courses. Analysis of the interviews identified key concepts relating to the students' utilization of KM for their learning tasks. The impact of KM on medical pedagogy is discussed in light of our results.

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Author information

Author/s: Wehbe, Firas H (FH); Spickard, Anderson (A);

Affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium (AMIA Annu Symp Proc), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2005-; vol (issue ) : pp 794-8

Dates: Created 2006/06/16; Completed 2007/02/15; Revised 2008/11/20;

PMID: 16779149, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Anatomy - education
Attitude to Computers
Computer-Assisted Instruction - utilization
Curriculum
Data Collection
Databases as Topic - utilization
Education, Medical, Undergraduate
Faculty, Medical
Humans

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