Sample E-learning environments

Prospective Case studies (Daily E-log samples)

These indicate narrative Informational needs as well as experiences at various levels of medical learning accumulated at various positions of the present author-physician- academic, spanning seven years and 3 teaching hospitals/institutions in 3 different countries ( Nepal, India and Malaysia). The underlying theme is that the daily narrative data a patient, health care student/professional generates reflects both their information needs as well as information contribution (learning points) to the medical knowledge base. 

These informational narratives may also answer the problem of complex multidimensional needs. Access to life experience information of one patient that finds a match in another patient can itself act as a sort of narrative therapy for that patient

Case study/Sample one:

Patient (category I medical learner/user) narrative with extracted learning themes/information needs from the point of view of a category II medical learner/user (A physician academic) teaching his students on the particular disease

It reflects a fusion of bottom up patient needs and top down medical theory.

For full narrative see web link: http://www.medspan.info/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,84/topic,101.0

Case study/ Sample two: A physician’s log on his daily ward rounds

For full narrative see web link: http://www.medspan.info/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,84/topic,102.0

Case study/sample three: It depicts a medical student's thoughts: the process of development of clinical reasoning. Also an example of M-learning where the medical student shares his clinical findings utilizing his mobile phone to click pictures of the findings (after appropriate consent from the patient).

http://www.medspan.info/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,84/topic,103.0

Case Study/Sample four: These depict medical student narratives from Melaka Manipal Medical college, Malaysia of their individual patients utilizing E learning and M learning.

1)      A student’s ward experience: http://www.medspan.info/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,84/topic,62.0

2)      Student’s e-queries and e-replies from her actual teacher, facilitator: http://www.medspan.info/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,84/topic,41.0

3)       Some of the narratives cover the chronic illness experience and some are hands-on learning of clinical skills and M phone pictorial documentation of disease manifestations: http://www.medspan.info/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,84/board,24.0