Research

Current Grants and Funding

 

 

  • Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation - NYU 3T: Teaching, Technology, Teamwork  (Triola)  New York University School of Medicine and New York University College of Nursing are collaborating on a four year project funded by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation to support the development of NYU 3T:Teaching, Technology, Teamwork, which will provide NYU medical and nursing students with longitudinal exposure to a diverse patient population and systematic interdisciplinary education in the competencies of team-based care.  This program will foster collaborative learning between our nursing and medical students, and generate the evidence base needed to inform the use of a technology-enhanced, interdisciplinary curriculum to efficiently teach a large and diverse group of healthcare learners.  It will leverage NYU’s current and evolving curricula, combined with innovative web-based educational tools, to provide our learners with a longitudinal panel of real and virtual ambulatory patients that serve as the exemplars by which interdisciplinary teaching occurs. This program will improve outcomes, through applied practice and progressive mastery, in team-based care, cultural competencies, and the management of health disparities among underserved populations.
  • National Library of Medicine 1RO1LM009538-01A1 (Kalet) Randomized trial of educational outcomes of Web Initiative in Surgical Education. The specific aim is to conduct a two year, three-armed randomized controlled trial comparing the impact of two design approaches to Web Initiative in Surgical Education (WISE-MD) modules, with differing levels of interactivity, to one another and to the standard clinical clerkship experience. The trial evaluates the WISE-MD modules' impact on cognitive and affective outcomes in novice medical students, while controlling for possible effects of learner and design variables at seven United States schools of medicine.
  • CDC/AAMC (Blaser) Psychosocial Aspects of Bioterrorism: Education for Readiness and Response. This project, funded by the CDC, is developing, implementing, and evaluating an innovative, modular CME program for physicians and other health professionals to address the need for training in critical competencies in respect to bioterrorism response: the care of individual patients, the care of self and colleagues, and the role of the physician as a community leader, especially in respect to risk communication.

 Past Grants and Funding

 

 

  • National Science Foundation IIS-0537252 (Grimm) Exploiting the Edge: A Web-Based Content Management and Delivery System to Enable Rigorous Assessment of the Impact of a Rich Media Educational Intervention on Clinical Competence This investigation, in collaboration with the School of Computer Science, is funded by the National Science Foundation to develop new tools and new assessment techniques for multimedia teaching applications. This project also proposes to build a technical infrastructure for dissemination of content globally using a trusted network. 
  • National Library of Medicine G08 LM008806-01 (Levin) NYU Medical Center Integrated Advanced Information Management Systems (IAIMS) The specific aims of this NLM grant are to: 1) Create a key set of opinion leaders in research, education, patient care, and administration; 2) Develop an educational culture that is multi-disciplinary-team-based and patient-centered; 3) Extend our existing digital library program components to maximize interoperability and integration; 4) Develop a plan for a continuous assessment process that will ensure the appropriateness of the tools and content and demonstrate the impact on the NYUMC community of this learning system.
  • National Science Foundation ESI-0525171 (Brownstein) Physical Computing for Students and Teachers Funded by the National Science Foundation's, Information Technology Experiences for Students program, this project implemented a curriculum in physical computing with a group of underserved students in New York City. 

 


Publications and Presentations


Peer Reviewed Manuscripts :

  • Triola M, Feldman H, Pearlman E, Kalet A. Meeting Requirements and Changing Culture: the Development of a Web-based Clinical Skills Evaluation System. J Gen Intern Med 2004;19:490-493.
  • Qualter J, Triola M, Weiner M, Hopkins MA, Kirov M, Nachbar M. The Virtual Surgery Patient: Development of a digital, three-dimensional model of human anatomy designed for surgical education. Long R, Antani S, Lee DJ, Nutter B, Zhang M, editors. Proceedings of the 17th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 2004; Bethesda, MD. California: IEEE Computer Society; 2004.
  • Triola M, Weiner M, Hopkins MA, Holloway W, Levin R, Riles T, Nachbar M. Surgical Interactive Multimedia Modules: A novel, non-browser based architecture for medical education. Long R, Antani S, Lee DJ, Nutter B, Zhang M, editors. Proceedings of the 17th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems; 2004; Bethesda, MD. California: IEEE Computer Society; 2004.
  • Lie D, Bereknyei S, Kalet A, Braddock C. Learning Outcomes of a Web Module for Teaching Interpreter Interaction Skills to Pre-clerkship Students. Family Medicine 2009; 41(4): 234-235.
  • Cook DA, Triola MM. Virtual patients: a critical literature review and proposed next steps. Medical Education 2009: 43(4): 303-311 


Peer Reviewed Educational Materials:

  • Triola M, Feldman H, Zabar S, Kalet A, Gillespie C, Anderson M, Lipkin M. Feeling Run Down - A Virtual OSCE. AAMC MedEdPORTAL; 2005. Available from: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal, ID = 095.
  • Triola M, Feldman H, Zabar S, Kalet A, Gillespie C, Anderson M, Lipkin M. Migraine Follow-up - A Virtual OSCE. AAMC MedEdPORTAL; 2005. Available from: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal, ID = 093.
  • Triola M, Feldman H, Zabar S, Kalet A, Gillespie C, Anderson M, Lipkin M. Surgical PA - A Virtual OSCE. AAMC MedEdPORTAL; 2005. Available from: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal, ID = 094.
  • Triola M, Feldman H, Zabar S, Kalet A, Gillespie C, Anderson M, Lipkin M. General Health Questions- A Virtual OSCE. AAMC MedEdPORTAL; 2005. Available from: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal, ID = 092.
  • Triola M, Feldman H, Kalet A, Zabar S, Lipkin M, Anderson M, Kachur E, Praeger J. Psychosocial Aspects of Terrorism and Disaster Medicine. MedEdPORTAL; 2005. Available from: http://www.aamc.org/mededportal, ID = 152.


Presentations:

  • Nachbar M, Hopkins MA, Weiner M, Levin R, Weider J, Holloway W, Poultney C, Chase J, Krackov S, Triola M, Castiglia C, Uretsky M. Infrastructure For Rich Media Educational Environments. The 114th American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting; 2003 November 7-12; Washington, D.C.
  • Triola M, McGee JB. Medical Education and the World Wide Web: Features, Issues, Directions for Innovation. The 13th International World Wide Web Conference; 2004 May 18; New York, NY.
  • Triola M, Huang G, Thakore H, Davies D, McGee J, Ellaway R. Virtual Patients. Medbiquitous Consortium 2005 Annual Meeting; 2005 April 5-8; Baltimore, MD.
  • Qualter J, Kirov M, Triola M, Hopkins MA, Nachbar M. 3D Modeling and Animation of the Virtual Surgery Patient. 2005 Slice of Life Conference for Medical Multimedia Developers and Educators, American Association of Medical Colleges; 2005 June 14-18; Portland Or.
  • Nachbar M, Gauthier JM, Feldman H, Rosen Z, Kirov M, Triola M. Entertaining Lessons: Applying Gaming Technology to the Virtual Patient. 2005 Slice of Life Conference for Medical Multimedia Developers and Educators, American Association of Medical Colleges; 2005 June 14-18; Portland Or.
  • Triola M, Nachbar M, Hopkins MA, Kalet A, Riles T. SIMMS: Surgical Interactive Multimedia Modules. 2005 Slice of Life Conference for Medical Multimedia Developers and Educators, American Association of Medical Colleges; 2005 June 14-18; Portland Or.
  • Hampton B, Qualter J, Kirov M, Nachbar M. Construction of a Web-Based Virtual Pelvis Trainer. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 14; 2006; Long Beach, CA
  • Hampton B, Qualter J, Kfir Z, Kirov M, Smilen S, Kwon C, Porges R, Nachbar M. A Web Based Virtual Pelvis Trainer. Video Presentation. Society for Gynecologic Surgeons Thirty-Second Scientific Meeting; 2006 April 3-5; Tucson, AZ
  • Qualter J, Fana, M, Deluccia N, Colen K, Scharf C, Haz A.  Visualizing Treatment Options for Breast Reconstructive Surgery. Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 17; 2009; Long Beach, CA


Abstracts and Posters:

  • Weiner M, Kirov M, Qualter J, Hopkins MA, Nachbar M. Using the Visible Human Dataset for Teaching Surgical Procedures to Medical Students and House Staff. The Fourth Visible Human Project Conference; National Library of Medicine; 2002; Keystone, CO
  • Nachbar M, Hopkins MA, Weiner M, Levin R, Weider J, Holloway W, Poultney C, Chase J, Krackov S, Triola M, Castiglia , Uretsky M. Infrastructure for rich media educational environments. The 114th American Association of Medical Colleges Annual Meeting; 2003 November 7-12; Washington, D.C.
  • Feldman H, Triola M. ResEval: A Web-based Evaluation System for Internal Medicine House Staff. Feldman S, Uretsky M, eds. Proceedings of the 13th International World Wide Web Conference; 2004; New York, NY. New York: the Association for Computing Machinery; 2004.
  • Triola M, Feldman H, Kachur E, Holloway W, Friedman B. A novel feedback system for virtual patient interactions. Shortliffe E, ed. MEDINFO 2004. Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Informatics; 2004; San Francisco, CA. Amsterdam: IOS Press; 2004: 1886. PMID: 15360714
  • Feldman H,Kalet A, Zabar S, Lipkin M, Triola M. SIMMS: A Novel Patient Interview Skills Simulator With Virtual Faculty Feedback. 2005 Slice of Life Conference for Medical Multimedia Developers and Educators, American Association of Medical Colleges; 2005 June 14-18; Portland Or.