The KnowledgeMap project: development of a concept-based medical school curriculum database.
We developed the KnowledgeMap (KM) system as an online, concept-based database of medical school curriculum documents. It uses the KM concept indexer to map full-text documents and match search queries to concepts in the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS). In this paper, we describe the design of KM and report the first seven months of its implementation into a medical school. Despite being emphasized in only two first year courses and one fourth year course, students from all four classes used KM to search and browse documents. All faculty members involved with courses piloting KM used the system to upload and manage lecture documents. Currently, we are working with eight course directors to transition their courses to KM for next year.
Denny
Joshua C
JC
Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.
Irani
Plomarz R
PR
Wehbe
Firas H
FH
Smithers
Jeffrey D
JD
Spickard
Anderson
A
D000043:Abstracting and Indexing; D003479:Curriculum; D019992:Databases as Topic; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D009862:Online Systems; D010865:Pilot Projects; D039781:PubMed; D012577:Schools, Medical; D017432:Unified Medical Language System; D014584:User-Computer Interface