INFORMATION AND COGNITION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

宜必思申请要求继续提供资金，以探索 结构化生物医学信息在医学生教育中的作用。的 由我们的初始赠款支持的研究强调了以下结果： 学生使用的数据库开发明确支持团队的 生物医学科学这些研究集中在学生的表现上， 知识和解决问题的测试，以及指标， 学生在细菌学知识的基本组织。 结果 我们迄今为止的研究表明，围绕INQUIRER建立的干预 数据库确实有很大的教育效果。 与此同时，这些结果表明了检查 搜索数据库的过程，密切关注学生的能力， 从结构化猿类的信息资源中检索信息， 详细地说，他们的信息寻求行为是如何塑造生物医学 科学这里提出的研究wig有这个重点，在目标1下，我们 将把INQUIRER数据库扩展到 更广阔的学习平台，呃更长的课程时间。下 目标2，我们将进行一系列相互关联的研究，检查学生如何 随着时间的推移，搜索能力的发展，搜索之间的关系 在某个领域的熟练程度和知识，以及搜索的普遍性 熟练到一个新的领域，学生的知识是最小的。目标之下 3，我们将详细研究学生如何制定搜索解决 具体的生物医学问题以及问题的具体特征 鼓励他们查阅基于计算机的信息资源。 拟议的研究将保留结构化，但同时 自然主义的方法，我们目前的研究，使用“控制 信息环境”建立在医疗 北卡罗来纳州医学院的课程。的 研究数据将来自正在进行的课程中的学生， 利用计算机信息资源的研究数据， 解决日常教育活动中的问题， 生物医学科学

Ibis application requests continued funding to explore the role of structured biomedical information in the education of medical students. The studies supported by our initial grant are emphasizing the outcomes of student use of a database developed expressly to support teaming of the biomedical sciences. These studies have focused on students'performance on knowledge and problem-solving tests, as well as indicators of the underlying organization of students' knowledge in bacteriology. Results of our studies to date suggest that an intervention built around the INQUIRER database does have significant educational effects. At the same time, these results indicate the importance of examining the process of searching a database, looking closely at students' ability to retrieve information from a structured apes their information resource and how, in detail, their information-seeking behavior shapes of biomedical science. The studies proposed here wig have this focus, Under Aim 1, we will extend the INQUIRER database to the This will provide a necessary broader platform for studying er a greater period of curriculum time. Under Aim 2, we will conduct an interrelated set of studies examining how student search proficiency develops over time, the relationship between search proficiency and knowledge in a domain, and the generalizability of search proficiency to a new domain where student knowledge is minimal. Under Aim 3, we will examine in detail how students formulate searches to solve specific biomedical problems and what specific features of a problem motivate them to consult a computer-based information resource. The proposed studies will retain the structured but simultaneously naturalistic approach of our present research, using a "controlled information environment" established within segments of the medical curriculum at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. The research data will derive from students functioning in ongoing curricula, working with a The research data wi computer-based information resource to solve problems that are part of routine educational activities in the biomedical sciences.