Test System for Emergency Medicine Courses

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Test System for Emergency Medicine Courses

• Wolfgang Janesch, Eveline Riedling,
• Fritz Sterz 2, Rainer Thell 2
• Inst. of Ind. Electronics and Mat. Science, TU
  Wien
• Dep. of Emergency Medicine,Univ. of Vienna_2

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Course providers viewpoint

• decisions have to be made most of the time within
  seconds at least minutes
• spend most of the time for training and
  simulating life threatening situations
• reduce the time for necessary theoretical
  knowledge lectures
• use all the time available for practical skill
  acquisition

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Some ideas

• IT should be used
• for information about the theoretical basis and
  background of emergency medicine
• by the medics independently of the time
  constraints given by their curriculum

• Revolution?
• Information systems should make traditional
  emergency medicine lecturing unnecessary

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Aims of the system

• special on-line knowledge check for
  emergency
  medicine courses
• before and/or after course
  participation
• multiple choice test
• strong stress factor

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Test levels
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Screenshots
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Screenshots
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First review results
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Review - Colleagues

• 20 people
• Professors at the department of emergency
  medicine at AKH (Vienna, Austria)
• Lecturers at the department of emergency medicine
  at AKH (Vienna, Austria)
• Young doctors

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Current status

• Starting in medicine lectures now (October 2002)
• More content will be added continuously
• Evaluation with students and doctors will lead to
  next release

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Further Aspects

• Links to information in Internet will be provided
• Content creation - expensive tasks (multimedia?)
• revolution?

WHAT WE NEED ...
Sponsors ...
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Contact

• Eveline Riedling
• Vienna University of Technology
• Inst. f. Industrial Electronics and Material
  Science
• eveline.riedling_at_tuwien.ac.at
• Fritz Sterz
• University of Vienna
• Department of Emergency Medicine
• fritz.sterz_at_akh-wien.ac.at