Enhanced IMS Metadata for Surgical Education Simulators

Abstract

Surgical education is an important field in medicine that is directly related with human health. Generally, this education is a time consuming and difficult process. Since surgeons will perform a job that significantly effects human life and quality of living with no room for error, the mentioned education has dramatic impact on patients, on their relatives, and also on society. In the literature, studies show that simulation environments potentially support and enrich this education. However, studies also show that even the several successful simulation tools being developed for the surgical education, still the integration of these technologies into the curriculum of education programs is not successfully established. This study proposes an enhanced IMS Metadata for surgical education simulation content. The proposed model is expected to help the surgical educators to better sequence this content in their curriculum and to better structure their courses. The authors believe that, by supporting these standards the simulation content developed for surgical education could be better defined by technically and pedagogically and in turn the success rate of the integration process of these technologies into current education programs will be improved.

Keywords

• medical education,simulation system,surgical educatio,meta-data,extensible markup language

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