INFORMATION AND COGNITION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

IBIS申请继续提供资金，以探索 结构化生物医学信息在医学生教育中的应用。这个 由我们的初始拨款支持的研究强调了 学生使用专门开发的数据库来支持团队合作 生物医学科学。这些研究侧重于学生在以下方面的表现 知识和解决问题的测试，以及 学生细菌学知识的基本组织。结果： 我们到目前为止的研究表明，围绕询问者建立的干预 数据库确实具有显著的教育效果。 与此同时，这些结果表明了审查 搜索数据库的过程，密切关注学生的能力 从结构化的类人猿的信息资源中检索信息 具体来说，他们的信息寻求行为是如何塑造生物医学的 科学。在这里提出的研究有这个重点，在目标1下，我们 将询问者数据库扩展到这将提供必要的 更广阔的学习平台，呃更长的课程时间。在……下面 目标2，我们将进行一系列相关的研究，考察学生 搜索熟练程度随着时间的推移而发展，搜索与 一个领域的熟练程度和知识，以及搜索的概括性 熟练掌握一个学生知识最少的新领域。在AIM下 3，我们将详细考察学生如何制定搜索来解决 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。 拟议的研究将保留有系统但同时进行的 我们目前研究的自然主义方法，使用了一种 在医疗服务的各个环节中建立的信息环境 北卡罗来纳大学医学院的课程。这个 研究数据将来自正在进行的课程中发挥作用的学生， 利用计算机信息资源，利用研究数据， 解决属于日常教育活动一部分的问题 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.