| Product Name: |
George |
| Level: |
Second Year Tertiary / Third Year Tertiary |
| Platform: |
Macintosh® |
| Supplied Information: |
George's daughter brings him to the Emergency Department because she became alarmed when he had a brief seizure and "passed out". She says he had begun drinking heavily after losing his job a year ago, became inactive and now eats very little. As part of your neurological assessment of his impaired consciousness.
Your findings suggest he has some type of nutritional problem but this probably is not the only reason for this coma. How much do the products of alcohol metabolism contribute to George's comatose state?
The answer to the above question suggests the need for certain lab tests. But you can't wait for the results because he now is deeply comatose and you need to start treatment immediately!
To simulate such encounters the student, as the health care provider, is given the patient's initial complaint but not its cause(s). She/he is then assigned the task of identifying the underlying problem, its cause(s) and in some cases, is asked to participate in the therapeutic management.
The style is self-testing, supportive and corrective rather than instructional. Opportunities to learn/review basic terms and definitions when they are encountered in each patient's "story" are available through hypertext links.
These computer tutorials (Jaundice, Lynn, Frank, George, Plasma Lipids, Recombination) allow medical students and other health science students to assess their knowledge of biochemistry and related disciplines and to test their ability to use this knowledge in simplified clinical settings.
In most of these tutorials the knowledge level expected is that of students in a health science biochemistry course. However, some knowledge of other medical sciences may be required. In a few of the tutorials, including "Frank", some familiarity with clinical biochemistry and pathological histology, and their use in diagnosis is useful but not essential.
These tutorials are meant to encourage students to teach themselves.. In some of the tutorials the student is moved through a fixed sequence of informational screens. In others the user is free to explore the tutorial's content as desired. In both types, questions are presented in appropriate places as various clinical and biochemical findings are encountered. Some questions are multiple choice in style but many require a typed entry of the student's response. Repeated incorrect responses elicit increasingly simpler corrective information until the student's level of knowledge is matched. |
| Possible Use: |
This product is suitable for Second Year Tertiary / Third Year Tertiary courses for use by students in laboratory classes. |
| Price: |
Free. Download from http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/biochem/coursenotes/blanchaer_tutorials/GeorgeTut.html#George |
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| Developer/s: |
Marcel Blanchaer, University of Manitoba, Canada (blanch@cc.umanitoba.ca) |
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| Supplier: |
Marcel Blanchaer,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Manitoba, Faculty of Medicine, 770 Bannatyne Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3E 0W3 |
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blanch@cc.umanitoba.ca |
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http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/biochem/coursenotes/blanchaer_tutorials/ |
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phone: (204) 789-3501 |
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fax: (204) 789-3900 |
| Date Record Last Modified: |
10/3/99 |
