Breakout session 4: Education in Informatics

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• Breakout session 4 Education in Informatics
• Rapporteurs Lynn Johnson, PhD
• Heiko Spallek, DMD, PhD
• June 2003, Natcher Conference Center, NIH,
  Bethesda, MD
• Dental Informatics and Dental Research Making
  the Connection

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• Doing the Right Things with Technology in Dental
  Education (Charles Friedman)
• Bioinformatics Training for Dental
  Researchers (Lynn Johnson)
• Issues and Strategies for Faculty
  Development (Michelle A. Robinson)
• Adaptive Hypermedia A New Paradigm for
  Educational Software (Heiko Spallek)

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• Doing the Right Things with Technology in Dental
  Education
• (Charles Friedman)
• Lessons Learned
• Use computers for instructional needs that
  canNOT be done any other way.
• Providing realistic practice opportunities.
• Present hard to understand contend, e.g.,
  embryology.
• Support instruction of problem-solving skills,
  e.g., PBL.
• Enabling disperse learning environments
  (outreach).
• Education ABOUT technology.
• Connect practice and learning, e.g., Just in
  time CDE.

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• Doing the Right Things with Technology in Dental
  Education
• (Charles Friedman)
• Right Things To Do
• Simulations and virtual reality.
• Access to knowledge resources.
• Communication and collaboration.
• Use of clinical information systems for
  learning.
• Integrate technology into curriculum NOT as an
  add on.
• KISS principle applies to making change.

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• Biomedical Informatics Training for Dental
  Researchers (Lynn Johnson)
• Carefully balance clinical sciences and
  information sciences.
• Core competencies are technology independent.
• Teach core competencies and integrate their
  application.
• Dearth of biomedical informatics faculty
  (programs at Columbia and Pittsburgh).
• Only Marquette teaches specialty students
• Work with CODA to add biomedical informatics to
  accreditation standards
• Nursing has solved the collaboration problem.

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• Issues and Strategies for Faculty Development
  (Michelle A. Robinson)
• Managing faculty is more complicated than
  managing technology.
• Implementing new teaching methods is difficult
  it is not the technology.
• Faculty are more concerned with WIIIFM, than the
  technology.
• Summarized the process for developing a success
  program including a reward structure.

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• Adaptive Hypermedia A New Paradigm for
  Educational Software (Heiko Spallek)
• Traditional online dental education courses
• broadcast paradigm centering around the teacher
• one-size-fits-all approach mass-production
• Adaptive hypermedia (AH)
• learner-centered education
• learning goal, pre-existing knowledge, learning
  style gt tailor learning material
• system creates a model of the individual user
• Taking the right approach with
  evaluationformative (expert review student
  feedback) and summative