| 英文摘要 |
Introduction: The Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) internship program provides hands-on training experience in clinical labs and focuses on developing professional competencies. The COVID-19 pandemic limited in-person training, and online courses were alternatives. We developed a Moodle-ePortfolio system (MLEPS) that integrates the functionality of a modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment (Moodle) and ePortfolio to provide effective learning and clinical assessment for MLS. Methods: This study consists of three stages. The design stage involved integrating the ePortfolio into Moodle. In the implementation stage, clinical teachers redesigned the internship training curriculums, and the research team trained teachers and students to use the MLEPS. Finally, we surveyed teachers' and students' acceptance and satisfaction of using the MLEPS with a questionnaire and collected users' qualitative feedback for systematic evaluation. Results: The MLEPS functioned as digital learning resources, teacher/student feedbacks, progress tracking, milestones, and statistical analysis of assessment results, allowing students to upload photos of activities or personal notes for future review. The system provides visualization of learning outcomes, allowing clinical teachers to visually observe the development of each student's competencies and ensure the achievement of learning objectives. Eighty-seven students and 18 clinical teachers participated in the MLEPS internship program. The positive results of the acceptance survey reveal the advantages of using the MLEPS. There were no significant differences in the three acceptance factors of usefulness, ease of use, and attitude between students and teachers. In addition, the students and teachers showed high satisfaction when using MLEPS. Discussion: This study demonstrates the feasibility and advantages of integrating Moodle and ePortfolio for the MLS internship program during the COVID-19 epidemic. Even with reduced in-person training time in half and time and place restraints and all other inconveniences in quarantine, the training efficiency of the MLS intern training was still well maintained. The MLEPS enhanced users’learning/teaching effectiveness. Clinical teachers use this system to provide students with teaching materials, discussion activities, feedbacks, and assessments to promote workplace-based learning. The complete MLEPS records also help theevaluations for generalized and personalized micro-competencies and reveal the learning information in time as progressed to strengthen competency-based education for MLS interns. |