Session 3 - 1:30-3:30

Education Informatics - Technology, Objectives, and the Learning Environment
Faculty: Christopher Cimino, M.D.

Educational Objectives

This session will look at the application of technology to teaching health care and the integration of medical informatics teaching in the educational environment. At the completion of this session participants will

1) have an understanding of the basic building blocks of the educational interaction: communication, assessment, role-modeling, skills development, and dialogue.

2) be exposed to several types of educational technology and understand how each complements or complicates each type of interaction

3) be exposed to several examples of Medical Informatics objectives with a focus on distinguishing skills, knowledge and attitudes.

4) understand how Informatics skills, knowledge, and attitudes relate to different educational interactions; particularly role-modeling and skill development.

5) understand how specific Medical Informatics objectives relate to specfic types of educational technology

6) understand how Informatics teaching can be integrated with other medical education.

Session Outline

• How does teaching occur?
  • Who is the student?
  • Who is the teacher?
  • What is being passed between teacher and student?
  • What is the role of discovery?
• Where does teaching occur?
  • Lecture versus small group versus one-on-one
  • Self study versus tutoring
  • Examinations as learning tools
• What passes between teacher and student (revisted)
  • Communicating knowledge
  • Assessing understanding and apptitude
  • Changing the student's behavior
  • Training skills
  • Student as teacher

• Where does technology fit in? (Teaching Tools)
  • Ancient "technology"
  • Present technology
  • Future technology

• Examples: Computer as a failed teaching tool
  • Strengths: Communication, Assessment
  • Weaknesses: Role-modeling, Dialogue
  • Emphasis on "self" study and "self" assessment

• Examples: WWW as a successful teaching tool
  • Strengths: Communication, Assessment
  • Weaknesses: Role-modeling, Dialogue
  • What makes this a success when computers before it failed?

• Cost of educational technology
  • Why cost data is difficult to pin down.
  • Silly accounting tricks.
  • Real cost saving tricks.
• Evaluation of educational technology
  • Education success as measured by science
  • Why success is harder to measure in medical education
  • Alternate measures of success.
• Medical Informatics Objectives
  • AAMC MSOP Project
  • Nursing Informatics
  • Other sources of Informatics Objectives

• Comparing Objectives
  • Basic computer literacy
  • Common themes
  • Divergence
• Organizing principles
  • Knowledge
  • Skills
  • Attitudes
• Teaching and assessing knowledge
  • "Constructing a patient database" as an example
  • Putting teaching into pratice
  • Putting assessment into practice
• Teaching and assessing skills
  • "Doing a MEDLINE search" as an example
  • Putting teaching into pratice
  • Putting assessment into practice
• Teaching and assessing attitudes
  • "Regard for patient privacy" as an example
  • Putting teaching into practice
  • Putting assessment into practice
• Educational technology revisted
  • "Constructing a patient database" as an example
  • "Doing a MEDLINE search" as an example
  • "Regard for patient privacy" as an example
• Cost revisited
  • "Constructing a patient database" as an example
  • "Doing a MEDLINE search" as an example
  • "Regard for patient privacy" as an example
• Benefits of Integrated Education
  • Benefits to students
  • Benefits to faculty
  • Benefits to the institution
• Obstacles to Integrated Education
  • Assigning "credit"
  • Logistical problems
  • Faculty development

Session 4 - 4:00-5:00

Education Informatics - Faculty Development
Faculty: Christopher Cimino, M.D.

Educational Objectives

This session will look at the adaption of clinical faculty to teaching medical informatics. Using specific examples on the internet, participants will face and overcome some of the common obstacles. At the completion of this session participants will have

1) gained practical skills in finding informatics information geared to education.

2) understand the obstacles to motivating faculty to integrate informatics teaching into other disciplines

3) know the types of behaviors that promote positive attitudes amoung collegues and students

Session Outline

Each exercise will be followed by a group discussion of the results of the exercise and concrete lessons learned.

• Exercise 1:
  • Internet resources to enhance the teaching of a skill objective
  • Examining learning curve obstacles.
• Exercise 2:
  • Internet resources to enhance the teaching of a knowledge objective
  • Examining quality obstacles
• Exercise 3:
  • Internet resources to enhance the teaching of a attitude objective
  • Examining reliability obstacles
• Other obstacles:
  • Social obstacles
  • Work flow obstacles
  • Resource obstacles