E-learning support tool for John Moores students
Pharmacy students at John Moores University in Liverpool are to benefit from an electronic decision support tool.
EMIS has been invited to trial its Mentor
system for lecturers and students as an extension to the school of chemistry and pharmacy’s current
computer aided learning programme.
Janet Krska, professor of pharmacy practice at the school, said: “In
the assessment of the Mentor system, over 250 students will use it to
answer a range of clinical questions that may be faced by a practising
pharmacist. We will be testing whether the system will enable students
to answer the questions more quickly and thoroughly, obtaining a more
rounded clinical view of patient problems.”
The system will provide pharmacy students with access to over 84,000
inter-related medical terms including symptoms, signs and treatments.
When users enter
patient symptoms it provides possible
diagnoses, prompts for further questioning and articles and research
papers for further reading.
Gordon Brooks, head of the unit that created and is supplying the Mentor
system to JMU, explained that Mentor is already used by GPs, adding that
he hoped the tool would become a valuable support tool for pharmacists
in the future. |
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