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Development
of a Computer-Based Aid for Evaluation of a
Student Performance
will
produce an automated process to evaluate and
give feedback to medical students learning acute
care skills in the Human Simulator Facility, a
multimedia, lifelike simulation of patient
contact. About
150 third-year medical students take Critical
Care Medicine each year.
Paul Rogers, project director, says that
enhancing the nature and timing of feedback to
students is expected to improve student
performance when caring for actual patients in
life-threatening situations.
The proposal will allow electronic integration
of on-line instructor evaluations of student
performance with computerized records of
simulated physiological data and student
interventions.
Digital video footage of critical moments
of student performance will be integrated with
this information.
The result will be an immediate and
detailed report of student performance for
feedback and debriefing after simulated patient
cases. |
Randy
Wax, left, demonstrates human simulation to
medical students. |
Few centers in the world use simulator technology
to teach Critical Care Medicine, according to Rogers.
Pitt has a unique combination of expertise in
education, simulator technology, and computer technology
to develop this adjunct to teaching. Feedback to students, enhanced by new developments in
computer and digital video technology, will be
multisensory. Rather than reviewing videotapes of student performance to
assess whether they achieved behavioral objectives,
instructors will be able to provide instant, detailed,
printed feedback. Also,
an electronic data base of student performance will
facilitate continuous curriculum evaluation and
improvement.
The technology can be applied to other areas
within the medical school that use performance-based
assessment, which is becoming an important improvement
to evaluative strategies within the School of Medicine.
Rogers is director of the multidisciplinary
Critical Care Training Program.
Co-directors are Randy S. Wax, senior fellow, and
Michael R. Pinsky, director of research. All three are with the School of Medicine’s
Anesthesiology-Critical Care Medicine Program.
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