bmc@sei.cmu.edu (Brian M. Clapper) (06/07/89)
A friend FAXed me a recent article which talks about integrating video
technology with IBM PCs using something called the IBM Infowindow System. He
asked me if I had any further information. I don't. Does anyone out there
know anything useful about this product?
I'm enclosing the article for anyone who is interested. (It's not too long.)
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Reprinted from "Business Journal" (without permission).
PEW GRANT WILL ALLOW STUDENTS, DOCTORS TO LEARN THROUGH VIDEO
by John George, Business Journal Staff Writer
The Pew Charitable Trusts is making a video producer
out of Dr. Richard L. Brown.
Brown, an assistant professor of family medicine
at Jefferson Medical College [in Philadelphia], who was
recently awarded a $235,000 grant from the Pew Charitable
Trusts to develop a computerized, interactive video. The
video will be designed to help doctors and medical students
diagnose and treat substance abusers.
Under the three-year grant, Brown will spend two years
planning and producing the videos with help from Dr. Stephen
P. Weinstein and Dr. Ronald Serota, both of Jefferson's
psychiatry department; Dr. Scott F. Beadenkopf, of
Jefferson's Office of Academic Consulting; a primary care
consultant; and a video production firm.
The third year of the grant will be spent evaluating
the program.
Brown's proposed creating a series of interactive
videos, which combine videotaped segments of simulated
patients with computer graphics to which the students
respond.
"We'll be evaluating the students who have looked at
the video and comparing them to students who have not," said
Brown. "We'll be comparing the student's knowledge and
looking at how the videos affect the student's motivation
and desire to learn."
Seven different videos will be produced. They will
deal with topics that include early recognition of substance
abuse, the use of valid questions [to aid] in diagnosing
substance abuse, eliciting appropriate substance-abuse
histories from patients and the treatment of alcohol
withdrawal.
The videotaped segments will be displayed through the
IBM Infowindow System, which has the only common hardware
system for computer-controlled interactive video.
"Most formal teaching in medical schools occurs by
lecture, which excels at augmenting short-term memory,"
Brown said. "These interactive videos will be designed to
promote the long-term knowledge retention, skill development,
and motivation necessary for identifying and treating
substance abuse."
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