Me, A Doc!

描述（由申请人提供）：我的目标，一个医生！是通过一个以探究为中心的网络视频游戏来教育高中生和本科生，在这个游戏中，每个学生都扮演一个面对神秘疾病的医生。该游戏将测试我们的假设，即合作学习，笔记，识字支架，反馈学习，探究和模拟现实生活经验的原则可以结合在一个激励性的，基于计算机的游戏中，以提高学生对人类生理学，细胞生物学，和疾病-所有在一个非-这是一种培养批判性思维和减少成绩差距的判断方式，这种差距经常出现在少数民族或经济困难的学生身上。我是医生将涉及用户作为文档从图书馆阅读和记笔记，从病历和身体和实验室检查中记笔记，将这些笔记与从图书馆选择的笔记链接，选择测试和程序（列出了完成的成本和时间），向虚拟患者解释过程，最后，在最短的时间内以最低的成本得出最佳诊断并开出最适当的治疗处方。我们预计，在第一阶段开发的第一个案例的试点测试将揭示我，一个医生的技术可行性！并表明它是赞赏和令人兴奋的学生和教师。在第一阶段，我们将开发与相关接待，办公室，实验室和手术室的用户界面，开发一个故事板和图书馆，以支持第一个病例，并提供逻辑上可以简化为一个的替代诊断，从试点可行性测试中获得学生和教师的反馈，并计划第二阶段项目。在第二阶段，我们预计将创建和试点测试更多的案例，招募学校，并运行由外部独立专家团队管理的广泛的受控评估。主要结果变量将是1）对生物学，生理学和疾病的理解的改善，以及2）减少性别，种族/民族，教育背景和社会经济地位不同的学生群体之间的成绩差距。次要结果变量将是学生和教师的态度和科学职业计划的可能变化的措施。该项目直接关系到国家卫生和农村改革委员会的使命：将教育技术和工具应用于卫生科学主题的教育.。主题可以从基本的分子和细胞生物学到人类疾病。并可扩展至提高市民的健康科学知识。公共卫生相关性：我，一个医生！提出了一种创新的方法，让我们的年轻人参与到一个具有视频游戏激励作用的教学计划中。专注于医疗诊断，我是医生！运用批判性思维和科学探究指导学生理解生物学、生理学和医疗保健。这有助于提高我国公民的健康素养，从而降低医疗保健费用。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of Me, A Doc! is to educate high school and undergraduate students through an inquiry-centric, web-based video game in which each student plays the role of a doctor confronted with a mysterious illness. The game will test our hypothesis that the principles of cooperative learning, note-taking, literacy scaffolding, feedback learning, inquiry, and simulated real-life experiences can be combined in a motivational, computer- based game to improve student learning about human physiology, cell biology, and disease - all in a non- judgmental way that fosters critical thinking and reduces the achievement gap often seen with minority or economically disadvantaged students. Me, A Doc! will involve the user as a doc reading and taking notes from a library, taking notes from case histories and physical and laboratory examinations, linking these notes to those selected from the library, selecting tests and procedures (listed with costs and time for completion) from a virtual, scrollable, database window, explaining processes to the virtual patient, and, finally, arriving at the best diagnosis and prescribing the most appropriate therapy in the shortest time at the lowest cost. We anticipate that pilot testing of the first case developed during Phase I will reveal the technical feasibility of Me, A Doc! and show that it is appreciated by and exciting to students and teachers. During Phase I we will develop the user interface with relevant reception, office, laboratory, and procedure rooms, develop a storyboard and library to support the first case with alternative diagnoses that can be logically reduced to one, obtain student and teacher feedback from a pilot feasibility test, and plan the Phase II project. During Phase II, we expect to create and pilot-test additional cases, recruit schools, and run an extensive, controlled evaluation managed by an external, independent team of experts. Primary outcome variables will be 1) improvement in understanding of biology, physiology, and disease, and 2) reduction in the achievement gap often seen between the performance of groups of students differing in gender, race/ethnicity, educational background, and socioeconomic status. Secondary outcome variables will be measures of student and teacher attitudes and possible change in science career plans. The project is directly relevant to the mission of the NCRR: application of educational technology and tools for education on health science topics... Topics can range from basic molecular and cellular biology to human diseases... that can be extended to enhance the health science literacy of the general public. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Me, A Doc! proposes an innovative approach to engage our youth in a pedagogically strong program with the motivating impact of video games. Focused on medical diagnosis, Me, A Doc! uses critical thinking and scientific inquiry to guide students in understanding biology, physiology, and healthcare. This could help improve the health literacy of our citizenry and thereby reduce health care costs.