Physics in Medicine: Active Learning Tools for Undergraduate Physics Courses Developed in a Joint Collaboration of STEM Scientists and Medical Experts

该项目旨在满足本科生STEM和健康科学专业对医学物理课程材料日益增长的需求，并将物理教学与医学领域的重要应用联系起来。这个项目的主要目标是为物理学中的医学应用开发教育材料。由此产生的材料是模块化的，可以作为一个整体用于专门的“医学物理学”课程，或部分用于入门物理课程。目前正在为重要的医学主题，如心电图学、光学仪器、超声成像、激光眼科手术、辐射和磁共振成像等开发六个模块。该项目的成果包括小组讨论、医学物理实验室练习、家庭作业、课堂活动、与现有的基于计算机的物理模拟一起使用以及形成性和终结性评估，以评估学生的理解能力。这些教材的开发是在物理和医学领域的专家的合作下进行的，以培养学生应用跨学科批判性推理技能的机会。通过对每个学习模块的技能、知识和态度进行形成性和终结性的事前和事后评估，对学生的学习进行评估(共6次评估)。外部评估员正在与PIS合作，制定一份学生对课程的评估，用来调整单元，并帮助判断他们在教授这份材料方面的总体成功。顾问委员会。由医学和物理学专家组成。正在为所开发材料的可靠性提供进一步的指导。项目期间制作的所有课程材料将通过“医学物理学”课程网站和商业合作伙伴分发给教育工作者。随后，正在编写关于学习成果的报告，供同行评议的期刊文章和学术会议上的报告使用。

This project aims to satisfy the increasing need for medical physics course material that is accessible to undergraduate STEM and health science majors, and it links the teaching of physics to important applications in the medical field. The primary goal of this project is to develop educational material for medical applications in physics. The resulting materials are modular and can be used as a whole in a specialized "Physics in Medicine" course or in part for introductory physics classes. Six modules are being developed for important medical topics like electrocardiography, optical instruments, ultrasound imaging, laser eye surgery, radiation, and magnetic resonance imaging.The outcome of this project results in worksheets for group discussions, medical physics laboratory exercises, homework assignments, in-class activities, use with existing computer-based physics simulations, and formative and summative assessments to evaluate students' understanding. The development of these teaching materials is being done in a collaboration of experts from the fields of physics and medicine to foster opportunities for students to apply interdisciplinary critical reasoning skills. Student learning is being evaluated by utilizing both formative and summative pre and post assessments of skills, knowledge, and attitudes for each of the learning modules (6 assessments total). In collaboration with the PIs, the external evaluator is developing a student evaluation of the course which is used to make adjustments of the modules and to help judge their overall success in teaching this material. The advisory board. consisting of experts in medicine and physics. is providing further guidance on the soundness of the developed material. All course materials produced during the project are being disseminated to educators via the "Physics in Medicine" course website and commercial partners. Subsequently, reports on learning outcomes are being prepared for peer-reviewed journal articles and presentations at academic conferences.