Healthcare E-Learning Collaborations
Healthcare Education Collaborations provides articles and listings about a variety of collaborative organizations involved in online healthcare education innovation. For information on how to submit an article about your organization and its healthcare e-learning activities, refer to Guidelines for Authors.
MELD Articles
Nancy Davis descibes the new Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL). Created by the the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the FMDRL is to be the primary mechanism used by family medicine educators to share curricular materials.
Al Salas from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) explains CurrMIT, a web-based tool that allows medical educators to find out about the curricula in other departments and medical schools and to manage their own.
Health sciences educators increasingly rely on multimedia educational materials for their teaching, but creating or finding high-quality multimedia remains a challenge for many. The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) was formed to facilitate the sharing of resources in a freely accessible digital library, with items organized in a highly searchable database. Find out more in this article by HEAL's Sandra McIntyre.
Organization Listings
careLearningCC is a nationwide consortium of hospitals and health systems that leverage each other's eLearning budgets to get more for less. Operated by careLearning, a non-profit organization formed by the American Hospital Association and 39 state hospital associations, this consortium allows hospitals and health systems to reduce eLearning development costs by as much as 95% through joint development and other cost sharing strategies.
IVIMEDS is a major international collaboration created to meet the challenge facing medical education through innovative approaches which exploit developments in educational thinking and information and communication technologies. Currently 37 leading medical schools located in 14 countries have committed financial and human resources and agreed to share learning resources to make a reality of the IVIMEDS vision.
