Promotion of Knowledge Transfer in Junior Medical Students Using an Online Training Exercise

• In Event: Hilton Roundtable Session 5
  In Roundtable Session: Where and How Does Learning Occur? Insights From Professions Education and Training

Abstract

Knowledge transfer is a key goal of learning, which this study aimed to investigate using an online training exercise for chest X-ray diagnosis. Junior medical students were trained to recognise the features of chest X-ray conditions and asked to provide diagnoses on these images and other unseen images to test for knowledge transfer. Transfer was observed but trained-for cases were diagnosed faster and more accurately. This study demonstrates that it is possible to promote knowledge transfer in junior medical students, using an online training exercise involving chest X-rays diagnosis, and is one of the few studies providing evidence of knowledge transfer in general.

Authors

• Lucy Victoria Rosby, Nanyang Technological University

• Jerome I. Rotgans, Nanyang Technological University

• Gerald Jit Shen Tan

• Naomi Low-Beer, Nanyang Technological University

• Silvia Mamede, Erasmus University

• Laura Zwaan

• Henk G. Schmidt, Erasmus University Rotterdam