Supporting complex problem solving in BME education

Author

Newstetter, Wendy C. ; Yoganathan, Ajit

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

23-26 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

2603

Abstract

A problem-based learning curriculum is designed to help students develop the reasoning strategies used by experts when solving real-world problems. In this paper we discuss our efforts over the last two years to develop support or scaffolding to help students develop reasoning and modeling strategies in the context of solving complex, ill-structured biomedical education (BME) problems. We report on our first unsuccessful attempts to use scaffolding from medical education, our move towards a more engineering approach and the learning outcomes of that move towards a different form of scaffolding.

Keywords

biomedical education; medical expert systems; model-based reasoning; physiological models; biomedical education; engineering approach; medical education; modeling strategies; problem-based learning curriculum; real-world problems; reasoning strategies; students; Biological system modeling; Biomedical engineering; Computer science; Context modeling; Educational products; Educational programs; Engineering in medicine and biology; Genetic engineering; Problem-solving; Tissue engineering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2002. 24th Annual Conference and the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society EMBS/BMES Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Second Joint

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7612-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053448

Filename

1053448