Development of a diagnostic and therapeutic simulation system based on patient data and specialist's knowledge. I. Simulation of diagnostic process

Abstract

A new simulation system of diagnostic and therapeutic processes is developed. The aim is to train medical students for the practical use of their knowledge, utilizing patient data in a total hospital information system. The knowledge in the system is presented by the specialists for every case. In medical school there are many specialists in various fields. With their cooperation the system can grow up to a comprehensive CAI system for clinical education. The system is designed to work on the mainframe for easiness of development, maintenance and extensions of the system. The present framework has been applied to the simulation of diagnostic process. The usefulness of the present system has been confirmed by specialists and students.

Use of Diagnostic Decision Support Systems in Medical Education

“…Several of them have functions that utilize their extensive knowledge base to create an essentially infinite number of diagnostic simulations automatically [8,26,52,53]. These simulations that are automatically generated are often cruder than those available with dedicated programs and faculty may have to spend some time selecting the most appropriate ones to use with students.…”