Contents

1. Save the Date! April 16-18, 2007
2. Call for Abstracts
3. Professional Profile and Healthcare LOM go to Standards Committee
4. Upcoming Events
5. Virtual Conference Now Available on MELD
6. Membership Campaign Underway
7. Membership Update

Save the Date! April 16-18, 2007

The MedBiquitous 2007 Annual Conference will take place April 16-18 in Baltimore, Maryland. This conference gives participants the opportunity to learn how technology standards and innovations can support common solutions to the challenges facing healthcare education and assessment organizations. Plenary sessions, workshops, panels, and innovation demonstrations will focus on virtual patients, SCORM for Healthcare, competency frameworks, digital CME certificates, self assessment, patient education, point-of-care learning, and many other topics related to innovation in healthcare education. Mark your calendar!

Call for Abstracts

The MedBiquitous Executive Committee is seeking high-quality abstracts for half-day workshops, panel presentations, and technology demonstrations for the MedBiquitous Annual Conference 2007. Abstracts are due November 1. For a complete list of topics and abstract submission instructions, please see the call for abstracts.

Professional Profile and Healthcare LOM go to Standards Committee

MedBiquitous is pleased to announce the submission of two specifications to the MedBiquitous Standards Committee for development as American National Standards. The Professional Profile provides a common format for exchanging clinician contact, education, training, certification, license, and membership information. The Professional Profile facilitates data collection and coordination of education and assessment organizations. Healthcare Learning Object Metadata is based on the IEEE Learning Object Metadata standard and provides a standard way of describing healthcare educational resources and activities, allowing learners and educators to find the right content when they need it.

The Professional Profile Working group is seeking participants for pilot projects implementing the specification. See the press release for more information.

Upcoming Events

MedBiquitous members and staff will be presenting at the following upcoming conferences:

SMILE: Symposium on Medical Interactive e-Learning, hosted by the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE) and Giunti Labs. Look for the Bridging Oases demonstration showing MedBiquitous standards in action as well as workshops, plenary sessions, and short communications from Dr. Peter Greene, Dr. Rachel Ellaway, Dr. J.B. McGee, and Valerie Smothers highlighting MedBiquitous standards, best practices in e-learning, and the MedBiquitous Virtual Patient Architecture. MedBiquitous will also have exhibit booths at the SMILE and AMEE conferences.

American Nurses Credentialing Center Inaugural Accreditation Program Symposium. MedBiquitous is participating in a poster session describing the use of standards for tracking and measurement of CE.

Association of American Medical Colleges. Listen to Virtual Patient Working group participants discuss implementing Virtual Patients as part of the GEA/GSA Group discussion session November 1 at 1 PM. You can also visit the MedBiquitous exhibit booth.

American Medical Informatics Association. Dr. Bill Hersh will present the paper "Adopting e-Learning Standards in Health Care:  Competency-based Learning in the Medical Informatics Domain" during the Automation in Healthcare Education session Nov 14 at 1:45.

Virtual Conference Now Available on MELD

Take a front row seat and explore the future of healthcare education! Video webcasts of several MedBiquitous 2006 Annual Conference presentations are now available. They include a number of excellent speakers presenting on the role of standards in supporting healthcare education, physician and patient learning, self assessment and quality improvement, competencies, and variety of other topics important to healthcare educators. View the webcasts on the MELD website.

Our thanks to all of the speakers and to Local Origination for filming, producing, and hosting these multimedia presentations.

Membership Campaign Underway

MedBiquitous standards have the potential to have an enormous impact on healthcare education and competence assessment, but to realize that potential requires widespread adoption and participation in the standards development process. To achieve these goals, MedBiquitous is lowering member fees and beginning a new membership campaign called Tell a Friend. If you are a MedBiquitous member, you will see the lower fees in your next invoice.  Member fees for non-profit organizations are now $3,000 per year; member fees for corporations range from $4,000 to $18,000 based on annual revenue.

To participate in the Tell a Friend campaign, individuals at member organizations can tell a colleague at a non-member organization about MedBiquitous. If that colleague joins MedBiquitous and references you as their primary referral, you attend the annual conference for free! Have an impact on healthcare education and tell a friend about MedBiquitous.

Membership Update

MedBiquitous welcomes the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM), the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), Genova Technologies, Learn Something, and Tufts University as members of MedBiquitous. Through its certification and recertification processes, ABFM seeks to provide patients the assurance that its certified family physicians have completed the necessary training/experience to provide quality care to the individual and the family.

The ECFMG assesses the readiness of international medical graduates to enter residency or fellowship programs in the United States. Genova Technologies provides information technology and consulting solutions to clients in healthcare and other industries. LearnSomething is a leading producer of customized multimedia training and learning management solutions for healthcare, pharmacy, and other industries. Tufts University is a premier university in the United States and is a leader in the development of innovative learning technologies and virtual patient applications. We’re delighted to have participation from these outstanding organizations!

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