Learning to Diagnose with Simulations: Examples from Teacher Education and Medical Education
About this ebook
Through closely analyzing projects from medical education, mathematics education, biology education, and psychology, the reader is presented with multiple options for interventions that may be used in each of the subject areas and the improvements in diagnostic skills that could be expected from each simulation.
The book concludes with an outline of promising future research on the use of simulations to facilitate professional competences in higher education in general, and for the advancement of diagnostic competencies in particular.This is an open access book.About the author
Frank Fischer studied psychology at the Universities in Trier and Aachen, obtained a doctorate in 1997 from Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) in Munich. After professorships in Erfurt and Tübingen, he became a full professor for educational science and educational psychology at LMU. His research focuses on digital learning, collaborative learning, scientific and diagnostic reasoning, as well as evidence-based practice in education. He served as the Director of the Department of Psychology and Dean of Faculty at LMU. He was the president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. He has been the director of the Munich Center of the Learning Sciences, which involves researchers and their workgroups from 8 faculties who engage in interdisciplinary research projects and in international masters' and PhD programs in the learning sciences.
