Mobile Access Resource Project (MARP)

描述(由申请人提供)： 移动接入资源项目(MARP)旨在显著改善与社区、以问题为基础的学习医学院的医学生之间的电子通信。夏威夷大学约翰·A·伯恩斯医学院(JABSOM)的学生在社区环境中完成了大部分学习。学生群体通常分散在几个不同的社区设施中，每个设施都有自己的网络安全问题和计算机访问限制。MARP将为30名医学生提供培训、个人数字助理(PDA)和全国无线网络接入，长期目标是让所有人都能使用该系统。通过这个平台，学生可以随时随地访问国家医学图书馆数据库，研究特定背景下的学习目标。期刊搜索将通过大学服务器发送，以允许即时构建具有存档搜索结果的个人网页，并链接到当地医学图书馆以供以后研究和全文检索。此外，东道主医学院(JABSOM)将利用改善的学生连接来收集更及时的行政数据。这些数据目前是手工收集的，包括病程评估、患者会诊和程序日志。这些数据对于跟踪学生活动、响应课程需求以及向认证机构提供强制报告非常有用。此外，由于学生通常是分散的，随时随地分发一般通知和建议的方法将对管理学生的时间表很有价值。由于无线通信将通过大学服务器进行路由，因此收集的所有数据都可用于填充个性化网页，供学生跟踪他们在课程中的进展。在项目结束时，有MARP设备和培训的学生将与没有接受MARP设备和培训的学生进行几项结果的比较。这些措施包括：1)测量患有PDA的学生在临床/教育应用中的舒适度和便利性；2)衡量在测试环境中使用NLM数据库查找相关文献的能力；以及3)比较患有MARP的学生和没有MARP的学生在报告和数据收集方面的数量和质量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Mobile Access Resource Project (MARP) aims to dramatically improve electronic communication with and for medical students in a community-based, problem-based learning medical school. Students at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM) at the University of Hawaii accomplish much of their learning in the community setting. The student body is often dispersed across several different community facilities, each with its own network security issues and limitations on computer access. MARP will provide training, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and national wireless network access to thirty medical students, with the long-term goal of making the system available to all. Through this platform, students will have anytime, anywhere access to National Library of Medicine databases to research context-specific learning objectives. Journal searches will be routed through University servers to allow for on-the-fly construction of personal Webpages with archived search results, and links to the local medical library for later study and full-text retrieval. Additionally, the improved connectivity of the students will be leveraged to collect more timely administrative data by the host medical school (JABSOM). This data is currently collected by hand, and includes course evaluations, patient encounter and procedure logs. This data is extremely useful for tracking student activities, responding to curricular needs, and providing mandated reporting to accrediting bodies. Furthermore, since students are often decentralized, an anytime anywhere method of distributing general announcements and advisories will be valuable to administering student schedules. Since the wireless communications will be routed through University servers, all data collected can be used to populate the personalized Webpages for students to track their progress within the curriculum. At the end of the project, students with the MARP equipment and training will be compared to those students without on several outcomes. These include: 1) measures of comfort level and facility of students with PDAs for clinical/educational application; 2) measures of ability to find relevant literature using NLM databases in a test environment; and 3) comparison of quantity and quality of reporting and data collection from the students with MARP to those without.