Employing UMLS for generating hints in a tutoring system for medical problem-based learning

Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 557-565

  Kazi, Hameedullah ^a   Haddawy, Peter ^b   Suebnukarn, Siriwan ^c  

^a ISRA UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Macao)

^c THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Hint generation; Intelligent tutoring systems; Knowledge acquisition bottleneck; Medical PBL; Ontology; UMLS

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL REASONING; CO-OCCURRENCE; CONCEPT HIERARCHIES; CORRECT SOLUTION; DOMAIN MODEL; DOMAIN ONTOLOGIES; HINT GENERATION; HUMAN EXPERT; INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM; ITS ARCHITECTURE; MANN-WHITNEY; MEDICAL PBL; PARTIAL CORRECTNESS; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; STUDENT REASONING; TUTORING SYSTEM; UMLS;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONTOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

ARTICLE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; TUTORING SYSTEM; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FACULTY, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; UNIFIED MEDICAL LANGUAGE SYSTEM;

EID: 84861845591     PISSN: 15320464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.02.010     Document Type: Article

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