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MeduCluster/Sympol
Multimedia, network-based lecture: Nucleus morphology
Sympol integrates computer-based learning into medical education. Thus it becomes easier for lecturers to hold their lectures as well as for students to attend lectures regardless of time and location via the Internet or recapitulate contents learned during attending real lectures. Sympol facilitates systematic as well as case-based learning in the predominantly morphological subjects anatomy, pathology, radiology and forensic medicine.
These subjects can be worked on from start to finish or, following a cross-subject approach, by moving through a particular topic - e.g. a certain disease pattern in all its facets. Hitherto isolated knowledge is thus combined to meaningful units preventing the well-established dissection of the patient into singular medical aspects.
Here is an example for systematic learning with Sympol:
Let´s assume you are dealing with the topic "chest x-ray ": Well, what did he say about the anatomy of the heart? Which is the right boundary? With a click of the mouse you will get the help you need. You can directly access corresponding chapters of other specialties dealing with the same topic. Go back from the x-ray to anatomy, go on to pathology and then back again. Do you see a consolidation there in the heart shadow on the x-ray? Looks like a calcified, stenosed heart valve. Remember how that sounds? Click, just a link away you´ll find an audio sample. Not to forget the pathological preparation you can look at.
Case-based learning with Sympol:
Here users are presented with patient model cases that branch out into the subareas of different medical fields. Sympol simulates a physician´s everyday professional life – often routines, sometimes treacherous cases. Students must decide on their own, which examinations they want to be carried out in which order. Like in real clinical medicine there is always more than one way to arrive at the correct diagnosis. From the examination pages links lead to texts for further reading, for students learn best about facts when they are presented in the proper context. It is not necessary any more to take the trouble of recapitulating or looking up certain facts of a case. Of course, systematic learners can also make use of case-based learning and vice versa. With the built-in chatbot tool students have an interactive tool at hand that supports motivation and orientation. Designed as an avatar (virtual character), the chatbot answers questions entered by the students.
The visual concept of the learning objects is characterised by clearly structured texts with abstract illustrations and fotographic images. Animations are used to visualise complex facts and circumstances. How texts, images and animations relate to one another depends on the demands of the particular content and the distribution over the Internet. Students can choose their learning paths themselves. The learning objects of the respective topics are cross-linked.
Sympol springs from an innovative and extensible concept. The three-dimensional approach of learning always permits to teach any subject systematically as well as case-oriented.
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