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Title: Debriefings on Prehospital Care Scenarios in MedDbriefer—A Tool to Support Peer Learning
Across the healthcare professions, many students don’t get enough practice doing simulated clinical interactions during course labs to feel confident about passing certification exams and treating actual patients. To address this problem, we are developing MedDbriefer, a web-based tutoring system that runs on a tablet. MedDbriefer allows peers to engage in supplemental clinical scenarios on their own. With its current focus on paramedic train-ing, one student “voice treats” a simulated patient as the leader of a mock emergency medical services team while a peer uses MedDbriefer’s check-lists to log the team leader’s verbalized actions. The system then analyzes the event log and generates a debriefing, which highlights errors such as as-sessment actions and treatment interventions that the team leader missed or performed late. This paper focuses on how the system analyzes event logs to generate adaptive debriefings.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2016018
PAR ID:
10443696
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Novel and Intelligent Digital Systems, NIDS 2023
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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