Christian Rogers, School of Engineering and Technology, Scott Renshaw, Shannon Cooper, School of Medicine
Principal Investigator: Christian Rogers, assistant professor, Department of Computer Information and Graphics Technology, School of Engineering and Technology
Co-principal Investigators: Scott Renshaw, assistant professor, Clinical Family Medicine, Shannon Cooper, Instructional Design Manager, School of Medicine
Project Title: Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate Field-based Experiences in Family Medicine
Funding Level: $5,000
Abstract:
Using Mobile Technology to Facilitate Field-based Experiences in Family Medicine is a project that utilizes a platform titled EASEL (education-through application supported experiential learning). The use of EASEL with family medicine students will provide a new way to facilitate and support online students who are in the field as they meet with students, health care professionals and organizations. Students are required to meet with a patient and identify barriers to care and then meet with a healthcare professional to design a plan to help overcome those barriers. The EASEL platform provides support of a student while in the field by considering the time and location of the student and then providing questions and content before, during and after the interview takes place. It is hypothesized that by utilizing the EASEL platform, family medicine students will be able to quickly capture information during these interviews (through audio recording) and will see an increase in metacognitive skill development by responding to reflection questions quickly before and after an interview takes place.