Research Platform for Medical Education Informatics

医学教育信息学研究平台

• 批准号: RTI-2017-00214
• 负责人: Fichtinger, Gabor
• 金额: $ 10.93万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Research Tools and Instruments
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=616597
• 关键词: Research; Platform; Medical; Education; Informatics

The equipment will support research in medical education informatics. We are witnessing revolutionary changes in medical education, where much progress has been driven by harnessing the power of modern informatics. Traditionally, medical trainees practice on real patients under the supervision of senior physicians. In addition, to exposing patients to risk by potential errors, in the era of skill-intensive medicine this model is no longer viable. Computer-assisted simulated environments have been proven, through medical education research, to be superior for training in the early stages of practice. Most current medical simulators are overly simplistic, merely replacing the patient with a mannequin. With the equipment requested, we will conduct ground-breaking research into novel medical simulation methods and systems empowered by informatics. We envision that in these simulator systems physical reality is blended with digital, virtual or holographic experiences. Arrays of miniature and non-contact sensors and instruments acquire a rich flow of digital data allowing us to compute objective, accurate and consistent metrics of skills, performance, and competence, and also to provide immediate quantitative feedback to the learner. Then, during first patient encounters, trainee performance is measured using similar instrumentation without interfering with patient care. We will develop approaches for authenticated management of trainee data, grades and certificates. We will investigate novel analytics and machine learning methods to allow to reveal the minutia of trainee skills and competence from digital sensory information collected during simulation training and patient encounters. Previously at Queen’s, we have developed the Perk Tutor open source software platform that offers exceptional speed and versatility in prototyping experimental computer-assisted medical education approaches. We have extensively published our results using Perk Tutor in surgery, anesthesiology, urology, oncology, emergency medicine, gastroenterology, cardiology and internal medicine. The portfolio of our cross-disciplinary collaborations enabled by Perk Tutor is constantly growing, attesting to the increasing need for and interest in medical education informatics. Having demonstrated the prowess of Perk Tutor as a system integration platform, we request tools and instruments to support activities to engage an extended group of NSERC-funded researchers, who will investigate a wide spectrum computing and engineering problems that are key to furthering medical education research. The fully instrumented Perk Tutor research platform holds strong potential to significantly improve contemporary medical education practices in a range of specialties in which the applicants are internationally acknowledged experts as translational clinical engineering scientists.

该设备将支持医学教育信息学研究。我们正在见证医学教育的革命性变化，利用现代信息学的力量推动了医学教育的巨大进步。传统上，医学实习生在资深医生的监督下对真实患者进行练习。此外，由于潜在的错误使患者面临风险，在技术密集型医学时代，这种模式不再可行。通过医学教育研究，计算机辅助模拟环境已被证明非常适合早期实践阶段的培训。目前大多数医疗模拟器都过于简单化，只是用人体模型代替患者。 根据所需的设备，我们将对信息学支持的新型医学模拟方法和系统进行突破性研究。我们设想在这些模拟器系统中，物理现实与数字、虚拟或全息体验相融合。微型和非接触式传感器和仪器阵列获取丰富的数字数据流，使我们能够计算客观、准确和一致的技能、表现和能力指标，并为学习者提供即时定量反馈。然后，在第一次接触患者时，使用类似的仪器测量受训者的表现，而不会干扰患者护理。我们将开发对学员数据、成绩和证书进行认证管理的方法。我们将研究新颖的分析和机器学习方法，以便从模拟培训和患者接触过程中收集的数字感官信息中揭示受训者技能和能力的细节。 此前在女王大学，我们开发了 Perk Tutor 开源软件平台，该平台在实验性计算机辅助医学教育方法原型设计方面提供了卓越的速度和多功能性。我们使用 Perk Tutor 在外科、麻醉学、泌尿学、肿瘤学、急诊医学、胃肠病学、心脏病学和内科领域广泛发表了我们的研究结果。 Perk Tutor 促成的跨学科合作组合不断增长，证明了人们对医学教育信息学的需求和兴趣不断增长。在展示了 Perk Tutor 作为系统集成平台的实力后，我们请求提供工具和仪器来支持活动，以吸引更多 NSERC 资助的研究人员参与，他们将研究对进一步推进医学教育研究至关重要的广泛计算和工程问题。设备齐全的 Perk Tutor 研究平台具有巨大的潜力，可以显着改善一系列专业的当代医学教育实践，其中申请人是国际公认的转化临床工程科学家专家。