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University of Louisville: Med Schools Integrate Handhelds
2/3/2003
When students place their handhelds in the HotSync cradle, applications and data can be quickly downloaded onto their handhelds with the touch of a button. The university is using Novell ZENworks for handhelds, a systems management product from Novell Inc., to centrally manage and update software applications, enabling the university to reduce the cost of providing IT support, while keeping students and faculty up-to-date.The purchase of the Palm m500 handhelds follows the University of Louisville Medical School's one-year study of third-year students using handhelds in their clinical rotations. This study was conducted in the fall of 2002.
Greenberg believes it is one of the first investigations of a large group using handhelds in medical education. More than 135 students and preceptors who oversee clinical rotations participated in the study, which confirmed what Greenberg expected—handhelds are a valuable tool in medical education. Greenberg states that they are currently focused on designing an infrastructure that will allow faculty to deliver more to students on their PDAs and PDA-based activities that engage first and second year students more actively with this technology.
For more information, contact Dr. Ruth Greenberg, director of academic programs at the University Health Sciences Center and director of the Office of Curriculum Development and Evaluation, University of Louisville, at rgreenberg@louisville.edu.
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