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ArticleHealthcare technology letters2016

Why decision support systems are important for medical education.

Stathis Th Konstantinidis, Panagiotis D Bamidis

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Article in Healthcare technology letters, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Educational data mining in medical education: A five-level approach.Journal of education and health promotion · 2025
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Stathis Th KonstantinidisSchool of Health Sciences , The University of Nottingham , Nottingham, NG7 2UH , UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3680-4559
Panagiotis D BamidisMedical School , Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki 54124 , Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-9936-5805

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the last decades, the inclusion of digital tools in health education has rapidly lead to a continuously enlarging digital era. All the online interactions between learners and tutors, the description, creation, reuse and sharing of educational digital resources and the interlinkage between them in conjunction with cheap storage technology has led to an enormous amount of educational data. Medical education is a unique type of education due to accuracy of information needed, continuous changing competences required and alternative methods of education used. Nowadays medical education standards provide the ground for organising the educational data and the paradata. Analysis of such education data through education data mining techniques is in its infancy, but decision support systems (DSSs) for medical education need further research. To the best of our knowledge, there is a gap and a clear need for identifying the challenges for DSSs in medical education in the era of medical education standards. Thus, in this Letter the role and the attributes of such a DSS for medical education are delineated and the challenges and vision for future actions are identified.

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biomedical educationcheap storage technologydecision support systemsdigital toolsDSS attributesDSS roleeducational digital resourceseducation data mining techniqueshealth educationmedical education

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PMID27222734
PMCPMC4814870

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