PANEL on CASES

Innovative E-learning in Medicine: www.meducase.de

Peter Langkafel, Stefan Höhne, Ralf R. Schumann Charité, Medical Faculty of the Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany

ABSTRACT:

Meducase is an e-learning project of the Charité Medical School of the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, sponsored by a large grant of the German Secretary for Research and Education ("BMBF"). The project combines problem-based learning strategies and open-source web technology in order to improve education of medical students. First evaluation results of student’s use of the Meducase platform will be presented here. The implementation of clinical cases, multimedia-enhanced content, as well as simulation-modules within the Meducase interface provides for a case-based multimedia didactic approach in both, plenary lectures and small team seminars focusing on practical skills, as well as in self-learning environments. The Meducase concept is based on digitalized clinical cases inducing a high level of motivation to acquire information in order to treat the virtual patient right. To this end the Meducase interface enables the student to utilize information from related fields and theoretical backgrounds web-based, leading to true interdisciplinary learning. Meducase, in addition to the presentation of cases also allows for a systematic display of content and enables the user to switch back and forth. An intelligent linking of granular content elements is achieved by employing the Unified Medical Language Standard (UMLS), a semantic link network and metathesaurus. In summary, Meducase makes use of interactivity, allows for individual learning pace and thus guarantees for a maximum of efficiency in learning the complex content of medicine. Employing New Media based on open source technologies, Meducase enables the implementation of most recent didactic strategies involving problem-based learning.

BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:

1. Learn didactically: about the concept of sustained, self-paced e-learning.

2. Discuss the concept of "open content in medicine".

3. See content-management-based state-of-the-art Flash rich Internet application

Peter Langkafel, MD

Charité / Faculty of Medicine, Humboldt-University

Dorotheenstrasse 96

10117 Berlin, Germany

Phone: Tel: +49-(0)30-4505-24274

Fax: Fax: +49-(0)30-4505-24900

mailto:peter.langkafel@charite.de

Website: http://www.charite.de/

CO-AUTHORS:

Stefan Höhne and Ralf R. Schumann

Charité / Faculty of Medicine / Humboldt-University / Berlin

Dorotheenstrasse 96

10117 Berlin

http://www.meducase.de/