Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo
Postgraduate Institute of Medicine University of Colombo
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Web based Curriculum for a Biomedical Informatics<br />
Course: Designing, Development, Implementation and<br />
Evaluation <strong>of</strong> an Electronic Health Record System module<br />
Online learning is also called web based learning. Now most <strong>of</strong> the specialties in <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
are using the Internet to deliver their course content online. Biomedical Informatics is a new<br />
specialty <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong> formed by the integration<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong>, Biology, Informatics and Computer<br />
Science. The <strong>Postgraduate</strong> <strong>Institute</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
is conducting the M.Sc in Biomedical<br />
Informatics course. The entire course is currently<br />
being conducted through face to face teaching<br />
sessions.<br />
A literature review has been done and a needs<br />
analysis <strong>of</strong> students along with a feasibility study helped to determine the following project<br />
objectives 1) Designing a web based learning course for the 2nd semester curriculum <strong>of</strong> the<br />
M.Sc in Biomedical Informatics 2) Course implementation and 3) Course Evaluation.<br />
according to Kirkpatrick’s model up to level 2. Moodle was selected as a hosting platform.<br />
Moodle is an open source learning management system. It can be easily customized and it is<br />
popularly used in Sri Lanka.<br />
Human–Computer interaction with multimedia integration played a role in designing and<br />
development aspects <strong>of</strong> the course. Three students from biomedical informatics course took<br />
part in a pilot implementation. Results <strong>of</strong> the evolutions, surveys and quizzes showed that<br />
material given to them was relevant and that they were satisfied with the user interface design<br />
<strong>of</strong> the course.<br />
The sample size included in this pilot study was small. Further studies needs to be conducted<br />
with larger sample sizes. However results <strong>of</strong> this project displayed that the web based<br />
Biomedical Informatics course can be conducted with limited resources by applying the<br />
relevant principles <strong>of</strong> designing, development, implementation, and evaluation.<br />
Dr. P.G.P.Daniel<br />
ruslal@gmail.com<br />
Supervisor:<br />
Dr.Rohana Basil Marasinghe<br />
MBBS, Ph.D( Brisbane)<br />
Member, Specialty Board in Biomedical Informatics<br />
Dr. Gominda Ponnamperuma<br />
MBBS, Dip. Psychology, MMEd (Dundee), PhD Dundee)<br />
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education<br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> <strong>Medicine</strong><br />
<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Colombo</strong><br />
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