Department of Community and Family Health, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, USA.
J Dent Educ. 2012 May;76(5):590-601.
Case-based learning offers exposure to clinical situations that health professions students may not encounter in their training. The purposes of this study were to apply the Diffusion of Innovations conceptual framework to 1) identify characteristics of case studies that would increase their adoption among dental and dental hygiene faculty members and 2) develop and pretest interactive web-based case studies on sensitive oral-systemic health issues. The formative study spanned two phases using mixed methods (Phase 1: eight focus groups and four interviews; Phase 2: ten interviews and satisfaction surveys). Triangulation of quantitative and qualitative data revealed the following positive attributes of the developed case studies: relative advantage of active learning and modeling; compatibility with a variety of courses; observability of case-related knowledge and skills; independent learning; and modifiability for use with other oral-systemic health issues. These positive attributes are expected to increase the likelihood that dental and dental hygiene faculty members will adopt the developed case study once it is available for use. The themes identified in this study could be applied to the development of future case studies and may provide broader insight that might prove useful for exploring differences in case study use across dental and dental hygiene curricula.
基于案例的学习为卫生专业学生提供了接触他们在培训中可能不会遇到的临床情况的机会。本研究的目的是应用创新扩散理论框架：1）确定增加牙科和牙科保健教师采用案例研究的特征；2）开发和预测试基于网络的敏感口腔-系统健康问题互动案例研究。形成性研究使用混合方法（第 1 阶段：8 个焦点小组和 4 个访谈；第 2 阶段：10 个访谈和满意度调查）跨越两个阶段。定量和定性数据的三角分析揭示了所开发案例研究的以下积极属性：主动学习和建模的相对优势；与各种课程的兼容性；与案例相关的知识和技能的可观察性；独立学习；以及可修改性，可用于其他口腔-系统健康问题。这些积极属性有望增加牙科和牙科保健教师在开发的案例研究可用时采用它的可能性。本研究中确定的主题可应用于未来案例研究的开发，并可能提供更广泛的见解，这可能有助于探索牙科和牙科保健课程中案例研究使用的差异。
