Special Track on Technology Enhanced Learning in Medical Education

Call for papers

Recent advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) have acted as catalysts for significant developments in the sector of health care, affecting strongly medical diagnosis, patient and healthcare management and of course medical education. There is nowadays an international trend to involve computers and the Internet in medical curricula, as well as, in continuing life-long medical learning. Currently the enormous expansion in medical and biomedical knowledge poses a fundamental challenge in medical education. Can new educational approaches build on concepts of adult education, rely on situational and/or constructive learning and accommodate requirements involved in active, self-directed, student-centred, and experiential educational programs? In order to account for the over-specialized knowledge available by different experts, information technology could be employed to develop new pools for educational modules and provide the mechanisms and tools to combine individual learning styles.

This special track aims to bring together researchers in the multi-disciplinary area of Medical Education, and to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of their research activities. Academics, engineers, scientists, psychologists, clinicians and computer scientists involved in medical education as it is enhanced by the use of ICT, as well as, research project managers involved in such funded projects are encouraged to submit papers to this special track. We therefore welcome paper/poster submissions and delegates from the worldwide Medical and Computing community, particularly those involved in specific research projects in Medical Education and/or with teaching responsibilities in this sub-area of "Computer-based Medical Systems".

Authors are invited to submit their research contributions or practical experience reports. All papers will be peer reviewed by at least two referees. The track provides its attendees with an opportunity to experience state-of-the-art research and development in a variety of topics directly and indirectly related to their own work, as well as, an opportunity to come up-to-date on important technological issues involved in the enhancement of medical education.

Topics

Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning in Medical Education
Adaptive and intuitive medical learning systems
Avatars and Virtual Reality technologies in Medical Education
The role of semantics and usage context in Medical Education
Individualization of learning experiences with ICT
User Interfaces in Medical Education
Usability and e-learning - the role of system users
Cultural Issues of e-learning in Medical Education
Standards in Medical Education
Web Collaboration Environments for Medical Teaching
Protocols and Guidelines for migration of content
Medical Education and technologies for the Disabled
Accessibility, scalability and cost effectiveness of Medical Education Management Systems
Methods, technologies and applications of content management systems
Pedagogy in e-Medical Education
Medical Education Networks
Evaluation of Medical Education Approaches
Empirical approaches in Medical Education
Technologies for Clinical Skills Laboratories
Virtual Collaborative Clinical Practice and Education
E-Health and Patient Training
Digital Medical Libraries
Life long medical learning
Medical Education Project Management

Important dates

Paper submission due : April 30, 2009.
Notification of acceptance for papers: May 25, 2009.
Camera ready papers: June 21, 2009.
Pre-registration deadline: June 21, 2009.
Hotel room reservations due: July 1, 2009. (http://mcmelegantealbuquerque.com/)

CBMS 2009 Symposium days : August 3-4 2009

Paper submission and publication

Each contribution must be prepared following the IEEE 2-column format and should not exceed the length of 6 (six) Letter-sized pages submitted electronically before the paper submission deadline (1 April 2009) using the paper submission system (a link to the system will be provided soon). All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Each Program Committee of the corresponding Special Track or General Track will be responsible for the final decision about acceptance of papers submitted to that track. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE CS Press. At least one author must pay the registration fee before June 21 for each accepted paper.

For further questions, please contact track chair: Panagiotis Bamidis

Track Program Committee

Ioannis Apostolakis	Technical University of Crete, GR
Chara Balasubramaniam	St Georges University of London, UK
Charalambos Bratsas	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
Athanasios Chatziapostolou	City College, GR
Giannis Dimoliatis	University of Ioannina, GR
Nicos Dombros	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
Barry Eaglestone	University of Sheffield, UK
Daniela Giordano	Universita degli Studi di Catania, IT
Dorian Gorgan	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, RO
Stylianos Hatzipanagos	King's College London, UK
M. Sriram Iyengar	University of Texas, Houston, USA
Dimitris Koufogiannis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
Antonis Lionarakis	Hellenic Open University, GR
Andries de Man	Leiden University Medical Centre, NL
Ioannis Mantas	University of Athens, GR
Vasiliki Manthou	University of Macedonia, GR
Nicos Pallikarakis	University of Patras, GR
Christos Papadelis	University of Trento, IT
Miltos Papaioakeim	Democritus University of Thrace, GR
Costas Pappas	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
Iraklis Paraskakis	South East European Research Centre, GR
Costas Pattichis	University of Cyprus, CY
Jack W Smith	University of Texas, Houston, USA
Valerie Smothers	MedBiquitous, USA
Pascal Staccini	Univ. of Sophia-Antipolis, FR
Ioannis Stamelos	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
John Svirbely	University of Texas, Houston, USA
Stefanos Triaridis	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
Thrasivoulos Tsiatsos	Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR

Track Chairs

Panagiotis Bamidis, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Eleni Kaldoudi, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Stathis Konstantinidis, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Email: bamidis at med.auth.gr