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MedBiquitous:Building Frameworksfor Collaboration

Peter S. Greene, MDExecutive DirectorMedBiquitous

April 27, 2010

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Key QuestionHow might we use Virtual Patients to transform healthcare education?

Three kinds of Collaboration:• Standards development• Evidence gathering• Pedagogical innovation

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MedBiquitous Mission

To advance healthcare education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care.

Not-for-profit, member-driven, standards development organization

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Fast Facts• 59 member organizations• 8 working groups• ANSI process

• Openness• Transparency• Consensus• Due Process

• Work with leading organizations that can drive adoption (AAMC, ABMS, ACCME, NBME, FSMB, AMA, VA)

ProfessionalProfile

LearningObjects

ActivityReport Metrics

Virtual Patient Competency

Point of Care Learning

EducationalTrajectory

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vpSim

Dr. J.B. McGeeLaboratory for Educational TechnologyUniversity of Pittsburgh

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MedBiquitous Virtual Patient Specification

SCORM Package

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eViP Partners1. St George’s, University of London, UK2. Karolinska Institutet, Sweden3. Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany4. University of Warwick, UK5. Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands6. Heidelberg University, Germany7. University of Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania8. Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Poland9. University of Witten Herdecke, Germany

www.virtualpatients.eu

eViP Team

Sample Virtual Patients from eVip

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Collaboration around Standards

“What are the electronic messages, documents, and datasets that need to be exchanged to promote great learning in healthcare?”

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Building the Foundation

ProfessionalProfile *

E-portfolio

HealthcareLOM *

Activity Report *

Virtual Patients *

Competency

Metrics * SCORMfor Healthcare

POCLearning *

* American National StandardAll under open public license

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Competency• Review of frameworks

• Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Competencies

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner Competencies

• American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) General Patient Care Competencies

• CanMEDS 2005• CanMEDS Specialty Competencies• Good Medical Practice (UK)• Good Medical Practice (USA)• The Scottish Doctor• Tomorrow's Doctors• Women's Healthcare Competencies

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Collaboration for Evidence Gathering

David A. Cook, MD MHPE

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Special Issue of Medical Teacher• Topic: Virtual Patients• 13 articles• Numerous VP topics

and authors from last year’s meeting

• Growing evidence base

Collaboration for Innovation