Newsletter
#21
MedBiquitous Consortium
Newsletter #21
13 June 2005
Published by the MedBiquitous Consortium
Contents:
- MedBiquitous Annual Conference Presentations Available
- Virtual Patient Working Group Convened
- The Latest from MELD
- Save the Date! April 25-27, 2006
- MedBiquitous and MELD RSS Feeds Now Available
- Membership Update
1. MedBiquitous Annual Conference Presentations Available
A broad range of healthcare education, competence assessment, and learning technology educators attended the MedBiquitous Annual Conference April 6-7, 2005 in Baltimore Maryland. Highlights included a keynote address on professional competence and patient safety from Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and a preconference seminar on the use of SCORM for Healthcare from Nina Pasini Deibler from Carnegie Mellon University's Learning Systems Architecture Lab. Thanks to speakers and participants, and special thanks to Local Origination (http://www.localorigination.com/) for providing a video webcast (available soon). Presentations from the conference are available for download at: http://www.medbiq.org/events/conferences/annual_conference/ 2005/presentations.htm
2. Virtual Patient Working Group Convened
The MedBiquitous Annual Conference also provided an opportunity for the Virtual Patients Working Group to convene. Co-chaired by Chris Candler, M.D. of the Association of American Medical Colleges and Rachel Ellaway of University of Edinburgh, the working group will create specifications to enable educators to share virtual patients. Virtual patients are interactive computer programs that simulate real life clinical scenarios, providing an effective way for healthcare professionals to learn about a wide range of clinical topics in a virtual (and therefore safe) environment. Virtual patients can be costly to develop, and several organizations are interested in sharing these engaging educational resources.
Outstanding educators from a number of institutions are involved, including the Centers for Disease Control, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard, HEAL, IVIMEDS, Medantic, Moberg Research, the National Board of Medical Examiners, New York University, Pfizer, University College Dublin, University of California, San Francisco, University of Colorado, University of Munich, and University of Pittsburgh. Members interested in participating in the working group should contact info@medbiq.org.
3. The Latest from MELD
The MedBiquitous E-Learning Discourse provides the latest information for professionals involved in healthcare education. This month, John Harris Jr., M.D. MBA argues that e-learning lowers the bar for medical education by focusing strictly on self-teaching. To find out more, read his article at: http://meld.medbiq.org/divergent_views/better_eteaching_harris.htm. In addition, Nancy Davis, Ph.D. summarizes a new resource for family medicine educators: the Family Medicine Digital Resources Library. Read about it at: http://meld.medbiq.org/meld_library/healthcare_ed_orgs/fmdlr_intro_davis.htm.
4. Save the Date! April 25-27, 2006
The MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2006 is scheduled for April 25-27 in Baltimore, Maryland. Mark your calendars!
5. MedBiquitous RSS Feed Now Available
The latest content from MedBiquitous and MELD are now available through RSS feeds, which use XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to deliver article summaries and article links to your desktop. To view article summaries, you will need to download and install an RSS reader and add the feed to your reader by following your reader's instructions. To view the MedBiquitous XML feed, visit: http://www.medbiq.org/rss/medbiquitousnews.xml
To view the MELD XML feed, visit: http://meld.medbiq.org/rss/meldnews.xml
Or click the orange XML button and add the link to your newsreader.
6. Membership Update
MedBiquitous is pleased to welcome the following new members: HEAL â the Healthcare Education Assets Library (http://www.healcentral.org/), Medantic (http://www.medantic.com/welcome/), and Moberg Research (http://www.moberg.com/).
HEAL is a digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners. HEAL staff members have contributed to the Healthcare Learning Object Metadata specification and the Virtual Patients Working Group. Medantic is a medical education technology provider that provides end-to-end solutions for the creation, cataloguing, logical aggregation, delivery, and tracking of high quality distance learning content. Moberg Research focuses on research and product development as well marketing and education material for the medical industry.
