Biomedical Education with Golem

Abstract. This article gives a review of the use of simulation models in medicine and physiology. It also explains our concept of work in this area, which has lead to the elaboration of a multimedia medical simulator called GOLEM. Physiological models are spreading fast in today’s medicine. They can, for instance, help to govern modern medical machines. Small lumped parameter models can be used in clinical practice to help physicians with diagnostics and to propose possible treatment. Large-scale models cannot generally be identified to the state of a particular patient, but they have been used to solve conceptual problems in physiology (e.g. the influence of a weightless state on a function of human circulation, respiration and other physiological subsystems). Recently, we have experienced an increased effort to put the large-scale models to use in multimedia education programs, such as GOLEM. Models and Medicine Just as the wise, old Rabbi Yehuda Loew of Prague brought life into a pile of mud, a