Assessing the Utility of a Network‐Based Curriculum Search Application (KnowledgeMap) for Evaluating Nutrition Content in a Medical School's Pre‐Clinical Curriculum

• DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.367.7
• Publication Date: 2021-06-16T10:26:36Z
• Authors: David Stuart Seres; Jane S Bogart; Boyd F Richards; Alexander G Goglia; Steven M. J. Peever; Joshua R Marr
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences; 4. Education

MethodsNutrition 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.ResultsThe 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.ConclusionsPreliminary 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.