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Interventional Diagnostic Procedure: A Practical Guide for the Assessment of Coronary Vascular Function
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[Computer based teaching of diagnostic skills (as illustrated by diagnosis of pulmonary artery thromboembolism]
Aim:
To elaborate an innovating computer learning system allowing experienced doctors to share their knowledge with beginning physicians; to apply a computer expert system in teaching interns to detect pulmonary artery thromboembolism (PAT) with emphasis on PAT risk factors and symptoms, on fixation of diagnostic skills.
Material And Methods:
The latest achievements in the field of artificial intellect served the basis for design of OSTELA educational computer system which operates with decisive rules of a highly skilled cardiologist. In this system interns study PAT diagnosis without a direct contact of the teacher with a learner. The computer system and its operation are described.
Results:
Skills of PAT diagnosis were taught to 48 interns. The number of correct answers to the control test increased by 30%, on the average.
Conclusion:
The proposed computer learning system OSTELA was successfully tried in clinics (pilot trials) and is recommended for postgraduate education of physicians.
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