MEDPOL - Multimedialer Fallpool für problemorientiertes Lernen in der Medizin / MEDPOL - Multimedia based pool for case related learning in medicine

Abstract

In August 2003 the project MEDPOL was founded at the medical faculty of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. MEDPOL stands for "multimedia based pool for case related learning in medicine". Hospitals and institutes of the faculty are offered to prepare typical casestudies for interdisciplinary eLearning. The students are given the possibility to practice at virtual patients close-to-reality. The simulation includes anamnesis, clinical investigations, technical and laboratory studies as well as the necessary treatment. Assistance is given if necessary, especially to find right diagnosis. Finally all steps are evaluated in form of statistics.Because of integration in a Learnmanagementsystem (LMS) the presentation of the content is highly flexible and the effort of course administration, point assignment, forum etc. is turned to minimum. MEDPOL is same as suitable as for continuing medical education (CME).

Keywords

• ELearning
• Case based education
• LMS
• CME
• University Hospital Jena