Use of Information and Communication Technologies to retrieve French pre-Residency Examination Program teaching resources on the Internet

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Use of Information and Communication Technologies
to retrieve French pre-Residency Examination
Program teaching resources on the Internet

• Stefan J. DARMONI a, b, c, Benoit THIRION a, c,
  Benjamin POURCHEZ a, Jacques WEBER c
• a CISMeF, Rouen University Hospital, France
• b PSI Lab, FRE CNRS 2645
• c L_at_sTICS, Rouen University Hospital Medical
  School, France
• URL www.chu-rouen.fr/l_at_stics

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Introduction

• ICT learning in medical schoolsWard JP et
  coll. Lancet 2001 357 792-6.
• In France, at the end of the second cycle a new
  pre-Residency Examination (pRE)
• How ICT can help active learning by students?
• To help students to find relevant teaching
  documents availalble in French on the Internet
• Creation of a pRE module in CISMeF

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pRE module in CISMeF

• Few teaching documents specifically written for
  the pRE (N?)
• To map betwwen the pRE programme (345 questions)
  and teaching documents already included in
  CISMeF (Ngt2,300)
• consortium FMVU (URL http//www.umvf.org)

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pRE module in CISMeF (cont.)

• Use of the CISMeF terminology encapsulated
  MeSH
• To optimise the retrieval of quality-controlled
  teaching resources
• Manually performed by the CISMeF  chief
  information scientist 
• Complex task minimising the noise the silence
• Most of the requests too complex to be created by
  the student

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Exemple of a request

• Ex question 3 Reasoning and decision in
  medicine. Evidence-based medicine. Therapeutic
  hazard.CISMeF request decision making.mhmajor
  or Evidence-Based Medicine.mhmajor or problem
  solving.mhmajor ou therapeutic hazard.tw or
  ((physician-patient relation.mh or patient
  education.mh) and therapeutics.mt)
• Ex question 57 arthrosisrequête CISMeF
  arthosis.mhmajor

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Evaluation of the pRE module

• First 88 questions
• Measure of noise (false) and precision
• Measure of the module coverage
• Evaluation by a CISMeF medical informatician
• Precision 63.5 Noise 36.5
• Coverage 85 76 (true)

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