Contents

1. MedBiquitous Annual Conference Registration Available
2. MELD Update: AAMC Launches MedEdPORTAL
3. Journal-based CE Guidelines Available
4. Tracking and Measuring CME to Support Change
5. Collaborative Healthcare Training: Sharing Development Costs Across Government
6. Linking Content and Competencies
7. Membership Update

MedBiquitous Annual Conference Registration Available

Registration is now available for the MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2006, April 25-27 in Baltimore, Maryland. This year’s conference has been expanded to include a number of interactive workshops and sessions that allow healthcare educators and learning technology strategists to learn about innovations that enable organizations to work together to improve healthcare education. Conference highlights include sessions on quality improvement, competencies, virtual patients, e-learning, and SCORM for Healthcare. Speakers include Dr. Murray Kopelow of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Dr. Donald Melnick of the National Board of Medical Examiners, Dr. Don Detmer of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Dr. Edward Miller, Dean and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine.

MELD Update: AAMC Launches MedEdPORTAL

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has launched MedEdPORTAL, a new publishing venue through which medical school faculty can publish and share educational resources and technologies. MedEdPORTAL was designed to promote collaboration and educational scholarship by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, cases (PBL, SP, OSCE), lab manuals, assessment instruments, faculty development materials, etc. MedEdPORTAL contains information about published resources and indicates how these materials may be accessed or obtained by interested faculty. MedEdPORTAL leverages MedBiquitous Healthcare Learning Object Metadata for the collection of descriptive information about the resources it collects. For more information, read the MELD article, or visit MedEdPORTAL.

Journal-based CE Guidelines Available

Pedagogical and technical Guidelines for Journal-based Continuing Education are now available. Developed by the MedBiquitous Journal Working Group, these guidelines will help organizations considering the development of journal-based CE or looking to streamline their current process using MedBiquitous technology standards, including Activity Report for reporting learner activity to accredited providers and Medical Education Metrics for developing learner surveys and aggregate reports.

Tracking and Measuring CME to Support Change

In November, the Conjoint Committee on Continuing Medical Education held a CME Summit to give CEOs and CME professionals the opportunity to discuss emerging developments to change the CME industry. Dr. Peter Greene, Executive Director of MedBiquitous, outlined the need for standards to help learners identify gaps in competency, identify relevant resources, and track and measure CME and performance improvement activities. To view Dr. Greene’s presentation, Enabling the Tracking and Measurement of CME and Performance Improvement, visit: http://www.cmss.org/images/Greene_RepositioningCME_Nov2005.pps.

Collaborative Healthcare Training: Sharing Development Costs Across Government

To reduce costs and duplicative efforts across government agencies, the Department of Veterans Affairs has established a multi-agency group called the Collaborative Healthcare Training Group. The group identifies healthcare education needs faced by multiple agencies and establishes development projects where the agencies involved share the costs associated with developing content. The VA is leading development within this collaborative and has started work with the Army, Air Force, and Navy on a Web-based training course, "Prevention Management and Disruptive Behavior." In addition, a Front End Analysis is underway for a cross-agency pharmacy technician training curriculum that will be primarily Web based. The group’s collaboratively developed courses are conformant with SCORM for Healthcare to enable sharing of content across different learning management systems and enhanced search and retrieval of content. For more information, contact David Twitchell.

Linking Content and Competencies

MedBiquitous is launching a Competency Working Group to develop standards that enable educational resources and activities to be tied to a competency framework. These standards would allow learners to track their accomplishments against a list of competencies relevant to their profession and specialty and would allow educators to see how their curriculum fits into a competency framework to facilitate curriculum management. MedBiquitous members interested in participating should contact Valerie Smothers.

Membership Update

MedBiquitous is pleased to welcome Thomson Scientific and Healthcare as its most recent member. Thomson Scientific & Healthcare provides integrated information solutions to researchers and librarians, physicians and pharmacists, and other professionals worldwide. MedBiquitous is also delighted to announce the addition of Shahir Kassam-Adams, Senior Vice-President of Strategy and Development at Thomson Scientific and Healthcare, to the MedBiquitous Board of Directors. Visit Thomson for more information.p>

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