May 4, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:30am
Susan Albright MS, Tufts University School of Medicine
Marc Triola, MD, New York University School of Medicine
The American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) began a new Curriculum Inventory Portal (CIP) project in 2009 to catalog the curricula at medical schools. The AAMC engaged Medbiquitous to draft a technical standard by which schools would digitally submit curricula. The standards group recognized, “A shared curriculum inventory would allow institutions to find out how other institutions are addressing common problems, implementing reform, and integrating novel teaching and assessment techniques into the curriculum.” The two authors co-chaired the working group and have begun the process of mapping the e-learning systems data at their schools, to the CIP. Both schools experienced common challenges: • Some curricular data are implicitly represented, but not stored electronically • The CIP standard focuses on the ‘event’ (lecture, group session, etc.) rather than the learning material where the meta-data may be assigned. • The data for pre-clinical courses and programs is more complete than for clerkships. • Both of the authors had access to the source code and data models of their e-learning systems. Schools using closed systems, will need partnerships with their technology providers during the transition to the CIP standard. The exercise of mapping a curriculum to this standard is one that could have great potential benefits locally. Used broadly, provides unprecedented ability to compare curricula and understand how we are educating tomorrow’s physicians.
