Title :
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
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;
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
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7612-9
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.2002.1053448
