Integrating Biomedical Informatics Training into Existing High School Curricula.

ABSTRACT: Growing demand for biomedical informaticists and expertise in areas related to this discipline has accentuated the need to integrate biomedical informatics training into high school curricula. The K-12 Bioinformatics professional development project educates high school teachers about data analysis, biomedical informatics and mobile learning, and partners with them to expose high school students to health and environment-related issues using biomedical informatics knowledge and current technologies. We designed low-cost pollution sensors and created interactive web applications that teachers from six Philadelphia public high schools used during the 2019-2020 school year to successfully implement a problem-based mobile learning unit that included collecting and interpreting air pollution da

SUBMITTER: Diwadkar AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8378629 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature