University of Ulm, Faculty of Computer Science, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence up: Research


Docs'n Drugs - die virtuelle Poliklinik


 Project Description

The research project Docs'n Drugs is sponsored by the program Virtuelle Hochschule Baden-Württemberg.

According to the German "Approbationsordnung", medical education should provide practice-relevant training in medical issues with emphasis on patient contacts. Beside the training of practical abilities, important goals are to teach students how to systematically acquire knowledge in the context of the patient's problem, to recognize the pattern of diseases and to choose the relevant data in the midst of additional information which will allow for determination of diagnostical and therapeutical steps. These abilities which are important in a doctor's daily work are difficult to teach, because the contents of the lectures and textbooks are rather systematically presented and a patient-centered education requires a large investment of time and personal resources.
The collaborative project Docs 'n Drugs is aimed at creating and implementing multimedial driven ways of teaching and testing its application to the curriculum of medical studies and the medicine-related fields.

The department of AI mainly contributes to this project methodologies and implementations for autonomous agents that assist both the development of tutoring cases and the tutoring process itself. We plan to support the reuse of learning objectives formalized in tutoring cases for further authoring issues. This knowledge also can be employed for automatic feedback to actions of a student while he learns with a case. Case-based reasoning and heuristic classification methods may be used to achieve those tasks. Furthermore, we use knowledge entities as indexing keywords into multimedia databases to illustrate medical subjects. Finally, the formalization of learning objectives helps us to create a detailed record of the learners' knowledge level in order to reconfigure the tutoring process accordingly and offer contacts to other students working at the same problems.

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For further information and publications see the project homepage http://www.docs-n-drugs.de.


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