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Assessing the Utility of a Network‐Based Curriculum Search Application (KnowledgeMap) for Evaluating Nutrition Content in a Medical School's Pre‐Clinical Curriculum
Author(s) -
Seres David Stuart,
Bogart Jane S,
Richards Boyd F,
Goglia Alexander G,
Peever Steven M. J.,
Marr Joshua R
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.367.7
Subject(s) - curriculum , medical education , nutrition education , medicine , medical school , psychology , gerontology , pedagogy
Methods Nutrition Master's students manually reviewed the slides from every lecture in the 18 month pre‐clinical medical curriculum at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) to identify content related to teaching of objectives defined in the Nutrition Curriculum Guide for Training Physicians (NCGTP), a former NIH‐funded program to improve medical nutrition education. An analogous curriculum review for ten representative NCGTP objectives was then performed using KnowledgeMap. Satisfactory KnowledgeMap search parameters unique to each objective were defined empirically. Results The manual review identified an average of 4.00 unique lectures with content relevant to each of the representative NCGTP objectives. KnowledgeMap identified an average of 6.10 unique lectures per representative NCGTP objective, an average of 4.38 of which were relevant. An average 45.8% of the presentations identified by KnowledgeMap and relevant to the objectives were not identified by the manual search. Conclusions Preliminary results indicate that KnowledgeMap is an effective means of searching the P&S curriculum for nutrition‐related content on an ad libitum basis, may be more sensitive than hand searching, and may serve as a useful tool for further medical curriculum content evaluation.