Me, A Doc!

描述（由申请人提供）：我，一个医生！是一个严重的医疗诊断角色扮演模拟器程序在一个视频游戏界面，旨在提高高中和大学生学习有关疾病的生物学的方式，培养批判性思维，并减少成绩差距往往与少数民族或弱势学生-NIH的目标。玩家扮演医生的角色，记录病史，做出诊断，并最终推荐治疗方案。在每一种情况下，玩家都要问问题来了解症状，做检查来获得体征，并进行实验室检查。在虚拟图书馆中使用基于证据的调查，玩家得到诊断，回答一系列苏格拉底反馈学习问题，澄清和激发思考，然后在尾声中学习每个案例的结果。该方法结合了图书馆查询、循证推理、识字支架和反馈学习，旨在教育高中生、本科生和其他考虑从事健康职业的人关于疾病诊断和医学相关生物学的知识。《我是医生》（Me，A Doc！在第一阶段开发，评估表明，学生热烈欢迎该计划，使用循证推理来整理复杂的信息并得出诊断，并在此过程中了解医学科学。第二阶段的目标是：（1）改善项目基础设施，扩大项目能力，并管理新的扩展;（2）制定与常见疾病相关的主要投诉的优先列表，并创建支持库文件和定义;（3）从这些疾病相关文件中开发新病例;（4）与焦点小组一起监测所产生病例的发展，并进行受控评估;（5）评估商业化战略，确定和发展伙伴关系安排，以便向学校和学院销售和分销，并设计一个销售和传播活动，以授权个人使用。评估与600名学生（高中和大学）在课堂上和单独工作的类将涉及两个前测试，以评估考试对知识获得的影响和后测试，以评估该计划对知识获得，态度，兴趣和动机的影响。之前的结果与类似的方法表明，我，一个医生！将导致知识的获得，促进批判性思维，并减少成绩差距，经常看到在不同种族/民族，教育背景和社会经济学的学生的表现-所有同时产生强烈的学生赞赏和支持。 公共卫生相关性：与资助机会公告的目标一致，我，一个医生！是一个新的，以发现为导向的教育软件程序，将提供技术和工具，高中和本科生了解人类疾病和相关的生物学在一个从事和激励的方式。这种互动式学习工具专为教室或个人使用计算机或平板电脑而设计，可以广泛传播，并将提高学生和公众的健康科学素养。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Me, A Doc! is a serious medical diagnosis role-playing simulator program in a video game interface that aims to improve high school and college student learning about the biology of disease in a way that fosters critical thinking and reduces the achievement gap often seen with minority or disadvantaged students - goals of the NIH. Players assume the role of a doctor who takes histories, makes diagnoses, and, ultimately, recommends treatments. In each case, players ask questions to learn symptoms, do exams to obtain signs, and order laboratory tests. Using evidence-based inquiry in a virtual library, the player reaches a diagnosis, answers a series of Socratic feedback learning questions that clarify and stimulate thinking, and then, during an epilogue, learns the outcome for each case. The approach, which partners library inquiry, evidence-based reasoning, literacy scaffolding, and feedback learning, is designed to educate high school students, undergraduate students, and others contemplating a health professions career about the diagnosis of disease and medically related biology. A prototype of Me, A Doc! was developed during Phase I and evaluation showed that students warmly welcomed the program, used evidence-based reasoning to sort through complex information and arrive at a diagnosis, and learned about medical science during the process. Aims for Phase II are: (1) improve the program infrastructure, expand program capabilities, and manage new extensions; (2) develop a prioritized list of chief complaints associated with common diseases, and create supporting library files and definitions; (3) develop new cases from these disease-related files; (4) monitor development of the resulting cases with focus groups and conduct a controlled evaluation; and (5) evaluate commercialization strategies, identify and develop partnership arrangements for marketing and distribution to schools and colleges, and design a marketing and dissemination campaign for licensing individual use. Evaluation with 600 students (high school and college) in class and working individually outside of class will involve two pre-tests to assess the effect of test-taking on knowledge gain and a post test to assess the effect of the program on knowledge gain, attitude, interest, and motivation. Prior results with a similar approach suggest that Me, A Doc! will result in knowledge gain, promote critical thinking, and reduce the achievement gap seen too often in the performance of students differing in race/ethnicity, educational background, and socioeconomics - all while generating strong student appreciation and support. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Consistent with the goals of the Funding Opportunity Announcement, Me, A Doc! is a new, discovery-oriented educational software program that will provide technology and tools for high school and undergraduate students to learn about human disease and related biology in an engaging and motivating way. Designed for use in classrooms or by individuals with computers or tablets, this interactive learning tool can be disseminated widely and will lead to enhanced health science literacy of students and the public.