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

本项目旨在满足STEM和健康科学专业本科学生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。该项目的主要目标是为物理学的医学应用编写教材。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，也可以部分用于物理入门课程。正在开发六个模块，用于重要的医学主题，如心电图、光学仪器、超声成像、激光眼科手术、辐射和磁共振成像。这个项目的成果包括小组讨论、医学物理实验室练习、家庭作业、课堂活动的工作表，与现有的基于计算机的物理模拟一起使用，以及评估学生理解的形成性和总结性评估。这些教材的编写是由物理学和医学领域的专家合作完成的，目的是为学生提供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总结性前后评估（共6次评估），对学生的学习进行评估。外部评价员与个人评价官合作，正在制定学生对课程的评价，用于调整模块，并帮助判断他们在教授这些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的。正在就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都通过“医学中的物理学”课程网站和商业合作伙伴分发给教育工作者。随后，正在准备关于学习成果的报告，以供同行评议的期刊文章和学术会议上的演讲。

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.