Patricia Youngblood, MA, MEd, PhD

Background     

Patricia's expertise is in teaching, faculty development, instructional design, curriculum development and educational evaluation.

Dr. Youngblood earned her PhD in Education (Curriculum and Instruction, 1989) and an MEd in Instructional Design and Educational Media both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MA degree in Educational Psychology from Columbia University in New York. She has 20 years of experience in the design, development and evaluation of technologies for teaching and learning in Medicine.

From 1990 to 2001 she lived and worked in Australia, including work as Senior Instructional Designer/Project Manager for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where she led development teams in the design, development and evaluation of interactive multimedia software for training in Industry. For seven years she taught Instructional Design and Educational Evaluation in the Master of Health Professions Education program at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, where she also served as Curriculum Consultant for the School of Medicine.

From 1998 through 2001 she was an external consultant at SUMMIT, assisting with the evaluation of the SHINE project, the Online Nutrition Project, the PharmaPac Project, the ISP-VL Project, and the validation studies of the Mentice VR Shoulder Arthroscopy Simulator.

Research Interests

Her research interests are validation of medical and surgical simulators, development of metrics for assessing medical and surgical skills, and the impact of 3D visualization for learning anatomy. Dr. Youngblood is Associate Director for Evaluation at SUMMIT and has led the surgical simulator evaluation studies since joining the permanent staff there in 2002. She has coauthored over 6 refereed journal articles on the evaluation of simulation technologies with colleagues at SUMMIT.

Project Role

Dr. Youngblood leads the Evaluation team and provides its overall direction. She is responsible for designing the evaluation studies and insuring their scientific validity, and implementing them in coordination with the technical and testbed teams. She develops appropriate assessment instruments to determine the impact of educational applications on individual learners as well as the impact of these technologies on the medical curriculum and residency training programs.

Selected Publications

Youngblood P, Srivastava, S, Curet M, Heinrichs W L, Dev P, Wren S M, (2004), Comparison f training on two laparoscopic simulators and assessment of skills transfer to surgical performance, in press, Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

Hariri, S, Rawn, C, Srivastava, S, Youngblood, P, Ladd, A (2004), Evaluation of a surgical simulator for learning clinical anatomy, Journal of Medical Education, Aug, 38(8): 896-902.

Srivastava, S, Youngblood, P, Rawn, C, Hariri, S, Heinrichs, L, Ladd, A, (2004) Initial evaluation of a shoulder arthroscopy simulator: Establishing construct validity, Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery, Mar-Apr; 13(2): 196-205.

Bergin, R., Youngblood, P., Ayers, M., Boberg, J., Bolander, K., Courteille, O., Dev, P., Hindbeck, H., Leonard, E., Stringer, J., Thalme, A. & Fors, U.G.H. (2003). Interactive Simulated Patient: Experiences with Collaborative e-Learning in Medicine. Journal of Educational Computing Research, Vol 29, Number 3: 387-400.

Osterberg, L, Stiller, C, Tornqvist, E, Ayers, M, Youngblood, P, Bastholm, P, Gardner, P, Gustafsson, L (2003). A web-based course in clinical pharmacology, Academic Exchange Quarterly, Spring: 29-33.

Pugh, CM & Youngblood, P (2002). Development and validation of assessment measures for a newly developed physical examination simulator, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9(5):448-60.

Dev P, Heinrichs WL, Srivastava S, Montogomery KN, Senger S, Temkin B, Hasser C, Latombe JC, Heegaard J, Youngblood, P, Friedman CP, Waldron K, (2001). Simulated learning environments in anatomy and surgery delivered via the next generation internet. Medinfo 2001 10(Pt 2), 1014-18.