Augmented notebooks for pervasive learning in medical practice

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2010;160(Pt 1):634-8.

Abstract

Medical e-learning can benefit from the new technologies, and pervasive learning resources and tools worth to be introduced in the medical context. Micro-learning seems to be an interesting way for pervasive learning. But it is still difficult to propose pedagogical resources that are built by learners, from meaningful experiments. We conducted an analysis of the exchanges performed by Health care professionals in the hospital in order to understand where and when educational exchanges appear. We analyzed the type of documents exchanged. The residents' paper notebooks caught our attention first because it answers some clinician-needs and second because the computerization of such a notebook could add a collaborative dimension to the pedagogical resources. We propose a model of an augmented resident's notebook and we briefly describe an implementation using Content Management System and WIKI, before setting the discussion and the conclusion sections.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Canada
  • Computer-Assisted Instruction / methods*
  • Computers, Handheld*
  • Education, Medical / methods*
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians'*
  • Software Design
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface*