INTEGRATING COMPUTER SIMULATION TRAINING INTO MEDICAL CURRICULUM — A QUICK AND BASIC APPROACH

Lars-Olof Häll and Tor Söderström
Department of Education
Umeå University
Sweden

Jan Ahlqvist and Tore Nilsson
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
Department of Odontology
Umeå University
Sweden

This paper reports on the integration of a radiological computer simulation into a clinical practice course for undergraduate nurse students and on the evaluation of this integration. The primary objective is to investigate whether a quick and basic approach to integration is sufficient in order to promote learning. We evaluate the integration as a product from a student perspective by inquiring, through interviews, into their experiences of learning with this simulation training and into their estimates of key integration design choices. Our overall conclusion is that a quick and basic approach to integration such as ours can be sufficient in promoting learning.

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