Theme
7AA eLearning: Games, resources and platforms
INSTITUTION
Universidad de Chile -Facultad de Medicina - Santiago - Chile
DAMIS is born from the idea of creating a tool that integrates different concepts and disciplines, using technological resources, presenting knowledge in a didactic way through a clinical case, and flexibly organized in different categories, allowing the student to define his/her own way to follow: a Swiss knife of self-learning
Objectives
1. To Generate a flexible and self-directed learning platform
2. To Make use of different learning resources: audiovisual, experiential, memory
3. To Link multiple disciplines from the medical career through an integrating and dynamic network,
4. To Innovate in the creation of academic material using a for students, by students” strategy
Working method
1. Creation of contents according to dimensions: Literature search, summary and writing of the material
2. Assembly: material storing at the platform, font adjusting, aesthetics and blank spaces
3. Connections: Links between dimensions through key words, symbols and references
4. Review: Group review and correction of written content, check proper work of audiovisual material and links between dimensions
5. Test: prototype evaluation
a. Finish the product
b. New review and correction of the material
6. Proposal of a new topic to work on
Finish the product
New review and correction of the material
7. Proposal of a new topic to work
1. Generate a DAMI’s working organization
2. Elaborate three prototypes currently online: Pain, Condensation Syndrome Lower Obstructive Uropathy
3. Obtain University grants for funding
4. Good reception by medical teachers: favorable feedback from the School of Medicine and from clinical tutors
- Current technologies have a great usable potential to innovate in medical teaching
- Self-learning tools can be useful in formal curriculum, allowing the student to organize his/her own way to learn according to his/her own needs.
- Working with a strategy “for students, by students” allows to get direct feedback about the material’s clearness and usefulness
- It is necessary to replicate this experience in a larger scale to check if the results are the same, and which factors can contribute to make a difference between populations
- It is necessary to get our own platform, in order to have no limits delivering the material
- It is necessary to integrate concretely the different topics in medical knowledge in order to facilitate the application of theory in practice
Creation of teaching material by multi-generational student teams and medical teachers would be a positive factor for contents learning and reaching consensus in different perspectives of medicine.
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