Wehbe Firas H, Spickard Anderson
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2005;2005:794-8.
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.
目前，许多医学院校都提供其医学课程的电子访问途径。为了更好地开发和评估在线课程数据库，需要了解学生和教师与这类系统的交互情况。KnowledeMap应用程序为学生、教师和管理人员提供了一个网络界面，以便他们对整个医学课程中的文档进行自然语言处理辅助搜索。对KM在一年级解剖学课程中的试点实施情况进行了评估。数据收集自两年多的网络服务器日志文件、课程结束时的纸质调查问卷以及对学生和教师的结构化访谈。数据显示KM得到了完全采用。对使用模式的分析表明，大多数学生选择浏览当前课程材料，而不是搜索未来课程中的相关医学概念。对访谈的分析确定了与学生在学习任务中使用KM相关的关键概念。根据我们的研究结果，讨论了KM对医学教学法的影响。
