"It's High-Tech, but Is It Better?": Applications of Technology in Psychiatry Education

Autor/inn/en	Krain, Lewis P.; Bostwick, J. Michael; Sampson, Shirlene
Titel	"It's High-Tech, but Is It Better?": Applications of Technology in Psychiatry Education
Quelle	In: Academic Psychiatry, 31 (2007) 1, S.40-49 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1042-9670
DOI	10.1176/appi.ap.31.1.40
Schlagwörter	Computer Assisted Instruction; Psychiatry; Medical Education; Literature Reviews; Instructional Effectiveness; Conventional Instruction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computer based training; Computerunterstützter Unterricht; Psychiatrie; Medizinische Ausbildung; Unterrichtserfolg
Abstract	Objective: This article reviews the existing literature on the use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in the field of psychiatry to answer the questions, 1) Is CAI an effective tool for teaching psychiatry? and 2) What are the best methods for studying CAI in a real-world training environment? Method: A Medline search was conducted for relevant articles, which were divided into three categories: media comparative (head-to-head trials), demonstration (reports of single CAI interventions), or analytical (commentary/reviews). Results: Twenty articles were identified. Although they tend to show that CAI is as good as or sometimes better than traditional teaching methods, the data are extremely variable and there are significant methodological difficulties that complicate interpretation of the data. These problems are consistent with difficulties experienced in other medical specialties when studying CAI. Conclusions: It is difficult to draw conclusions about the efficacy of CAI in psychiatry from this disparate sample of articles. Efforts to compare CAI interventions with traditional teaching methods have significant inherent limitations and biases and are very difficult to conduct in a naturalistic educational setting. The author offers alternative approaches to studying CAI in psychiatry. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10