Information Technology in Health Science Education

This first volume is but an introduction to the growing use of computer-based systems in health-science education. It is unlikely that the intellectual or applied system constructs herein are either exhaustive of the field or immutable; growth is inevitable. For one thing, the field is still fractured and loosely organized, which is an inevitable description of an adolescent science in a rich mine of ideas. There is emerging, however, an organizing concept. A short look into the future indicates that educational system design will be dominated by a concept which, for want of a better term, we may call an "information system." Actually, this term de­ rives from an early New York World's Fair exhibition designed by Charles Eames entitled the "Informational Machine," in which the designer illustrated once again his insight into the future by showing how in a fundamental manner the digital computer promised to affect and to change our lives; and this change is by no means completed. Even during the publication of this volume, the basic sciences re­ quisite to the development of an information machine have evolved significantly. The three intellectual areas to watch are developments in artificial intelligence, graphics and man/machine interaction, and basic component and computer system design.

Contenu

1 Introduction.- 2 CAIDENT: Dental Education Marching to the Beat of a Different Drummer.- 3 Computer-Supported Independent Study in the Basic Medical Sciences.- 4 Dental Education.- 5 Computer-Assisted Instruction in Health Professions Education: Guidelines for Utilization.- 6 Planning for Educational Communication Networks.- 7 Sharing Computer-Based Simulations for Clinical Education.- 8 The LHNCBC Experimental CAI Network, 1971-1975: An Administrative History.- 9 The PLATO System: An Evaluative Description.- 10 CAIREN: A Network for Sharing Health Care Learning Resources with Ohio Health Care Facilities and Educational Institutions.- 11 Health Education Network.- 12 Electronic Publishing and Electronic Literature.- 13 A Self-Contained CAI Machine for Health Sciences Education.- 14 Using Minicomputers for Courseware Delivery.- 15 The Evolution and Use of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) in Health Sciences Education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.- 16 Computer Applications in Self-Paced Medical Education in the Basic Sciences: The University of Washington Experience.- 17 A Tutorial System.- 18 The Use of Computer-Assisted Teaching Systems (CATS) in Pharmacology.- 19 Some PLATO Applications in Health Sciences Education.- 20 CAI at the Michigan State University Medical Schools.- 21 Patient Simulations in Clinical Education.- 22 Management of Clinical Problems by Physician-Computer Dialogue.- 23 Clinical Simulation in Medical Education: The Wisconsin Experience.- 24 Simulation and Research Models as Teaching Tools.- 25 Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) by Analytic Appraisal.- 26 Transferability of Computer-Based Learning Materials: Guidelines and Limitations.- 27 Programming Languages.- 28 Writing Computer-Aided Instruction Lessons: Some Practical Considerations.- 29 Audiovisuals and Computer-Based Learning.- 30 Some Nostalgic Reflections on Computer-Assisted Instruction.- Appendix A MERIT An Application of CASE.- Appendix B Evaluation of the Experimental CAI Network (1973-1975) of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, National Library of Medicine..- Appendix C Bibliography.