What's New?
MedBiquitous Virtual Conference Available
Videos from the MedBiquitous 2006 Annual Conference are now available! View the keynote presentation on patient safety from Dr. Peter Pronovost, the MedBiquitous update from Dr. Peter Greene, and a host of other sessions related to learning technologies, healthcare education, and competence assessment. Or if you want to find out all about MedBiquitous in 1 minute and 32 seconds (and you're a Gilbert and Sullivan fan), listen to the MedBiquitous Song, written and sung by Dr. Ross Martin! Lyrics are available as well. Many thanks to Local Origination for
for filming, editing, producing, and hosting the Virtual Conference multimedia presentations.
AAMC Facilitates Publishing and Sharing of Educational Materials
High-quality teaching materials in medicine are costly to produce. For example, a single virtual patient can cost upwards of $100,000. To enable the publishing and sharing of peer-reviewed educational materials, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has created MedEdPORTAL. Find out more in this article by Robby Reynolds and Chris Candler.
AMA Revises Physician's Recognition Award and Credit System
The American Medical Association has made major changes to its AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ system. Read all about it in the AMA's Information Booklet for Accredited Providers and Physicians.
SCORM for Healthcare Resources
A variety of resources are available to help you learn about maximizing the use and decreasing the cost of your healthcare e-learning.
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Learning objectives define the purpose of a unit of instruction and describe what the learner should be able to do, know, or feel at the end of the instruction. Valerie Smothers presents a quick lesson on writing learning objectives.
Is it live or is it virtual?
Since the dawn of medicine, teachers have presented their students with fictive patients and cases to illustrate their lessons. In her article Modeling Virtual Patients and Virtual Cases, Rachel Ellaway of the University of Edinburgh describes how virtual patients and cases are used in healthcare education currently and how technology standards can help us craft better learning tools in the future.
