Why decision support systems are important for medical education

Bamidis, Panagiotis D.; Konstantinidis, Stathis Th; Konstantinidis, Stathis; Bamidis, Panagiotis

Abstract

© The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2016. During the last decades, the inclusion of digital tools in health education has rapidly lead to a continuously enlarging digital era. All the online interactions between learners and tutors, the description, creation, reuse and sharing of educational digital resources and the interlinkage between them in conjunction with cheap storage technology has led to an enormous amount of educational data. Medical education is a unique type of education due to accuracy of information needed, continuous changing competences required and alternative methods of education used. Nowadays medical education standards provide the ground for organising the educational data and the paradata. Analysis of such education data through education data mining techniques is in its infancy, but decision support systems (DSSs) for medical education need further research. To the best of our knowledge, there is a gap and a clear need for identifying the challenges for DSSs in medical education in the era of medical education standards. Thus, in this Letter the role and the attributes of such a DSS for medical education are delineated and the challenges and vision for future actions are identified.

Citation

Bamidis, P. D., Konstantinidis, S. T., Konstantinidis, S., & Bamidis, P. (2016). Why decision support systems are important for medical education. Health Technology Letters, 3(1), 56-60. https://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2015.0057

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Feb 9, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Mar 21, 2016
• Publication Date: Mar 21, 2016
• Deposit Date: Mar 15, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 21, 2016
• Journal: Healthcare Technology Letters
• Electronic ISSN: 2053-3713
• Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 56-60
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1049/htl.2015.0057
• Keywords: biomedical education; decision support systems; cheap storage technology; DSS attributes; educational digital resources; medical education; health education; education data mining techniques; DSS role; digital tools
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/775515
• Publisher URL: http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/htl.2015.0057
• Additional Information: This paper is a preprint of a paper accepted by Healthcare Technology Letters and is subject to Institution of Engineering and Technology Copyright. When the final version is published, the copy of record will be available at IET Digital Library.