The Vascular Medicine Training Application

Evanthia Tripoliti1, Antonios Sakellarios1, Michael Peroulis2, Euripides G.M. Petrakis1

1Technical University of Crete (TUC), Dept. of Electronic and Comp. Engineering, Chania2University Hospital of Ioannina, Department of Surgery, Vascular Surgery Unit, Ioannina, Greece

Outline

Purpose

State of the art

The training application Learning Sequence (scenario)

Evaluation

Conclusions

Purpose

Development of a distant learning solution which provides

the experts the opportunity to train their students.

Support trainees gain their endovascular clinical

competence.

Improvement of vascular clinician's knowledge.

Training for endovascular interventions in superficial

femoral artery (SFA)

Simbionix/ Therenva/ CAE/ Mentice

WeBSurg

NHS

Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions

(SCAI)

State of the art

slides

high-quality visuals, audio and animations

interactive activities and practice questions

case studies

'real-life' scenarios,

operative techniques,

surgical protocols and equipment,

critical cases,

lectures,

surgical videos

Performance Metrics

The training applicationUser Groups

Experts in vascular medicine

Trainees Qualified vascular surgeons

Medical students

User groups

Expert in vascular medicine

Prepare educational, training content for their trainees.

TraineesComplete the scenarios in order to become more familiar with various cases and prepare themselves for making decisions for their patients.

Medical Students “Simple” scenarios help them to decide if the endovascular interventionalist competence is what they want to develop in their career.

Qualified vascular surgeons

Difficult patient cases included in the application will be useful for their continuing education.

The training applicatione-learning approach

The training application is:

inspired by the e-Learning paradigm,

realized as a Learning Content Management System

(LCMS), supporting: data creation, storage, retrieval, reuse,

delivery of content (data and scenarios ),

built on top of LAMS (for the implementation of the

training process).

The training applicatione-learning approach

The training application is:

based-upon the latest e-Learning standards such as IMS

Learning Design (LD) for the implementation of training

scenarios,

implemented using Java and Flash (for the system and user

interface respectively),

Web-based,

addressing different user types for different educational

objectives.

The training applicationFunctionality

The training applicationArchitecture

The training applicationScenario

The training applicationEvaluation

11 evaluators.

A short description of the

application was provided to

the evaluators.

A scenario has been

developed.

The user completed an

evaluation questionnaire.

The training applicationEvaluationEvaluation of User Interfaces mock-ups

Intuitiveness of the application and easiness to navigate throughout

Look and feel of the application

Approval of the scenario based approach

The training applicationEvaluationEvaluation of User Interfaces mock-ups

Clearness of the various scenario steps

Adequacy of the provided data

Presentation of the data

The training applicationEvaluationEvaluation of User Interfaces mock-ups

Ability to see other students’ answers

Access to online references

Add synchronous/ collaborative learning functionality

The training applicationEvaluationEvaluation of User Interfaces mock-ups

Achievement of the educational objectives

Potential of the final application to train the

learner

Appropriateness of the tool to train the learner in decision

making

The training applicationEvaluationEvaluation of User Interfaces mock-ups

Application to be part of the training for gaining clinical competence

Participation in the further evaluation of the application

Would you recommend the final application to a colleague?”

Time spent on a single tutorial of this type

The training applicationEvaluation

Conclusions

We presented a Web-based open source training application which

provides learners with unlimited access to training opportunities.

It promotes individual training exercises, facilitates self-paced practice

sessions, and captures case details for objective assessment.

It supports endovascular surgeons at their first steps in the specific

competence and their further on-the-job training.

By completing the scenarios they become more familiar with various cases

and prepare themselves for making decisions for their patients.

It supports trainees in improving their skills required for competence in

vascular medicine.