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AI/LEARN: An interactive videodisk system for teaching medical concepts and reasoning

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This paper describes AI/LEARN, an educational videodisk system designed to teach clinical observational skills and reasoning in medicine. The AI/LEARN system uses a learning conditions approach to teaching. To teach visual concepts, we use the principle of exemplar/nonexemplar pairs and immediate feedback. To teach If-Then problem solving we use the format of minicases with delayed feedback. The software to operate the system has been custom developed and is domain independent. The result is a prototype of a new authoring package for videodisk teaching which operates on IBM compatible microcomputers. The medical domain selected for this prototype system was rheumatic diseases; the knowledge used to teach reasoning skills is derived from the knowledge base of an expert system: AI/RHEUM.

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  1. From the Information Science Group, Department of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, Columbia, Missouri

    Joyce A. Mitchell Ph.D., Alex S. C. Lee M.D., Terry TenBrink Ph.D., James H. Cutts III M.S., David P. Clark M.D., Susan Hazelwood B.S., Robert Jackson D.O., John Bickel M.D., William Gaunt M.D., Roland P. Ladenson M.D. & Gordon C. Sharp M.D.

  2. Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, Columbia, Missouri

    Joyce A. Mitchell Ph.D., Alex S. C. Lee M.D., Terry TenBrink Ph.D., James H. Cutts III M.S., David P. Clark M.D., Susan Hazelwood B.S., Robert Jackson D.O., John Bickel M.D., William Gaunt M.D., Roland P. Ladenson M.D. & Gordon C. Sharp M.D.

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Mitchell, J.A., Lee, A.S.C., TenBrink, T. et al. AI/LEARN: An interactive videodisk system for teaching medical concepts and reasoning. J Med Syst 11, 421–429 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00993009

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