The attitudes and perceptions of first and third year medical students toward the use of computers in medical education and D(X)R, a computerized patient simulation program.

摘要

The purpose of the study was to determine the attitudes and perceptions of first and third year medical students toward computers and a computerized simulated patient program called Diagnostic Reasoning (D;A total of 190 first and third year medical students, enrolled at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine during the academic years of 1992-93 and 1993-94, were surveyed. These students represented three different classes. The first class of freshman students surveyed were admitted in 1992, and consisted of 74 first year medical students who were enrolled in one of two curricula tracks. The Sequence I track (56 students), which is a traditional curriculum, where students are taught the basic sciences according to organ systems, and the Problem Based Learning Curriculum (PBLC) track (18 students), where students learn their basic science in association with clinical problems. Of this class only sequence I students (56) were given the questionnaire. They had done at least five D;Data collection started in July 6, 1993, and ended in January 20, 1994. Data were analyzed using the statistical analysis system (SAS) program. Graphs, to illustrate findings, were drawn using DeltaGraph;D