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Keeping Up
eLearning is Changing the Face of Medical Education
As with many professions, medical care is quickly changing. How do medical schools stay ahead in this age of rapid information?
"The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education,"* emphasizes the advantages that eLearning brings to the area of medical student
training.
With advanced research revealing new information and technology in various medical fields, as well as an increasing
awareness of how environmental factors and nutrition play a major part in health, it is unreasonable to expect professors in medical
schools to relay all information to all students. In other words, students now have to take some of that responsibility on themselves to
learn information outside the traditional medical classroom.
Professors of health care education have felt the need to modify their
roles as well. Many are faced with developing and expanding new branches of medicine, such as geriatrics and complementary medicine.
They may also need to restructure how they teach. Allowing the flexibility to be discoverers with their students and welcoming the
integration of new research and information into the traditional curriculum reflect some of these changes. They must also learn to use
eLearning to their best advantage, in transferring and updating applicable knowledge into a dynamic environment, as well as managing and
delivering the course content. The use of an LMS (Learning Management System) is a valuable tool for accomplishing learning management
and delivery.
"The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education," states that learning delivery is most often given as the
advantage of eLearning, Learning delivery includes accessibility to the content, ease in updating content, personalized instruction,
ease of distribution, standardization of content, and accountability. While it is important to preserve the mandatory knowledge
requirements found in traditional classroom instruction, it is also necessary to incorporate these advantages in the rapid information
age and capitalize on the benefits of eLearning. One might consider how eLearning and the traditional classroom may successfully merge
into a dynamic duo of information exchange, with a combination of new and old, investigating the implementation of one with the other.
eLearning also serves other purposes: to reinforce classroom knowledge, to refresh information, and to look at respected knowledge
from different perspectives, with the added benefit of reinforcing the concept of continual learning.
Keeping medical knowledge on the cutting edge for medical students, professionals, and others involved in health care is a priority
that we all recognize as important to everyone's well-being. As we see it, and much of the medical community agrees, eLearning is one
major solution to deliver optimal health care education in the 21st century.
*"The Impact of E-Learning in Medical Education"; Jorge G. Ruiz, MD, Michael J. Mintzer, MD, and Roseanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD;
Academic Medicine; March, 2006)
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Design-a-Course Back-Office Reporting Features
One often overlooked feature of Design-a-Course is its extensive reporting interface. Here is a snapshot of the main selection screen for
report generation
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The first section allows you to specify which students to select for the current report.Your choices
range from who has started a course to who has passed the course, and a wide range of options in between.
Next, for each student selected above, you can include all attempts at a course, or only the highest scoring or most
recent attempt.
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In addition to these options, there are text fields (not shown here) that allow you to further filter report output based upon such
things as student last name or department.
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