Tuesday April 28, 2009

8:00 AM–
4:00 PM

Registration

9:00 AM–
12:00 PM

Concurrent Workshops and Meetings

Pre-registration Required, limited seating

MedBiquitous Orientation

Peter Greene, MedBiquitous

Strategies For The Sharing Of Healthcare Training Content

Rebecca Bodrero; Schawn Thropp
Concurrent Technologies Corporation

Deploying A Taxonomy In Medical Literature

Jake Zarnegar¹; Elizabeth Willingham^2
1Semedica; ²Silverchair

9:00–11:00 AM

E-ViP Meeting

Invitation only

10:30–10:45 AM

Break

12:00–1:00 PM

Lunch

1:00–4:00 PM

Concurrent Workshops and Meetings

Pre-registration Required, limited seating

An Evidence Based Learning Approach to Development and Evaluation Of An Interprofessional Education Core Competency Framework

Jay Shiro Tashiro; Lisa Kitchen; Carolyn Byrne
University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Implementation Of the Healthcare LOM At The Department Of Veterans Affairs

Dawn Carroll¹; David Twitchell¹; Leo Grassi²; Rebecca Bodrero^3
1Department of Veterans Affairs; ²US Navy; ³Concurrent Technologies Corporation

Templates For Your Success - Standardizing Your Courseware Development Process With SCORM Conformant Templates

Mary Pat Aust; Julie Lambla; Monica Hanks
American Association of Critical Care Nurses

Manage A Virtual Patient In Second Life*

*WORKSHOP REQUIREMENTS & INSTRUCTIONS
There are requirements for this workshop including some steps to be completed before the workshop. Instructions.

Sheetal Kavia¹; Luke Woodham¹; Terry Poulton¹; David Burden^2
1St George’s University of London; ² Daden Limited

1:00–3:30 PM

Virtual Patient Developers Meeting

Working group members only

3:30–5:00 PM

Virtual Patient Working Group Meeting

Open to all conference attendees

1:00–5:00 PM

Technical Steering Committee Meeting

Non-committee members interested in attending should contact jpoet@medbiq.org.

6:00–9:00 PM

Board of Directors Dinner

Closed Meeting

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

8:00 AM

Registration

Continental Breakfast

9:00–10:30 PM

Plenary Sessions

9:00 AM

Welcome (PPT, 645 KB)

Don E. Detmer, MD, M.A., Chairman, MedBiquitous Board of Directors, President and CEO, American Medical Informatics Association

9:15 AM

Laying the Groundwork for Collaboration: A MedBiquitous Update (PPT, 3.2 MB)

Peter Greene, MD, Executive Director, MedBiquitous

Technology offers a mechanism to better collaborate with the broader healthcare community in ways that advance the practice healthcare education and assessment and ultimately work to improve the quality of patient care. MedBiquitous develops technology standards that make this collaboration work and offer ways to better leverage education resources and data. Dr. Greene reviews the past year’s progress and highlights key implementations that are changing the practice of healthcare education and competence assessment.

9:45 AM

KEYNOTE ADDRESS
The Efficacy of E-learning in the Health Professions (PDF, 613KB)

David Cook, MD, MHPE, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

E-learning offers a great deal of flexibility to learners and instructors alike, but what does research tellus about what makes it work? Dr. Cook reviews the research literature on the efficacy of e-learning in the health professions and presents conclusions of a systematic review. His analysis will demonstrate the strengths and shortcomings of existing evidence, highlight implications of this research for e-learning developers, and identify important themes for future e-learning research.

10:30–11:00 AM

Break

11:00 AM–
12:30 PM

Semi Plenary Sessions

EDUCATION TRACK

Information – the missing ingredient for successful innovation in medical education (PPT, 13.9 MB)

Ronald M Harden OBE MD FRCP FRCS FRCPC, Association for Medical Education in Europe

Changes in medical education have not kept pace with changes in the practice of medicine. In response to a variety of pressures and facilitated by the use of new learning technologies, we can look forward now to new opportunities. Dr. Harden discusses how to harness learning technologies through “disruptive innovations” to bring about a paradigm shift in education.

11:30 AM

Assessing Physician Competence in Practice

Richard Hawkins, MD, American Board of Medical Specialties

Assessing the practicing physicians poses a unique set of challenges. Data can be difficult to obtain or compile, time is at a premium, and practice settings vary, providing varying degrees of peer interaction and opportunities for feedback. Dr. Hawkins outlines existing work in physician assessment and recommends strategies for effectively overcoming challenges to assess the practicing physician.

12:00 PM

Using Measurement Data to Oversee the CME Enterprise

Kate Regnier, MA, MBA, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education

The ACCME Continuing Medical Education accreditation criteria require that CME contribute to patient safety and practice improvement, be based on valid content, and be independent of commercial interests. Monitoring and surveillance provide an opportunity to enforce these requirements while collecting important data that measures the scope and impact of CME. Dr. Kopelow and Ms. Regnier describe the ACCME’s efforts to collect CME measurement data and the impact this will have on their oversight and the CME industry.

TECHNOLOGY TRACK

11:00 AM

Philip Dodds Memorial Lecture: Leveraging Standards for Multinational Collaboration (PDF, 144 KB)

Nabil Zary, Ph.D., Project Leader, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

Technology standards can be a useful tool for integration and development challenges, but they can also be used more broadly as the backbone of multinational projects and collaborations. One such project is eViP, a program to create a shared bank of virtual patients across Europe. Dr. Zary will describe the benefits and technical challenges that such collaboration presents and compare these to the progress that it enables both within a single institution and across many nations.

11:30 AM

Should Virtual Patients get a Second Life? (PDF, 2.7 MB)

David Burden, Daden Limited

Second Life is a virtual world that allows for its “residents” to create their own environment for their own purposes, including everything  from entertainment to social networking, marketing, and learning. Increasingly Second Life is being used as a platform for immersive learning in collaboration with other individuals. Mr. Burden describes the significance of e-learning in Second Life and the virtual patient platform in Second Life that leverages the MedBiquitous Virtual Patient specification.

12:00 PM

Interfacing High Fidelity Mannequins with Web-Based Training (PPT, 2.9 MB)

Rachel Ellaway, Ph.D., Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Simulation in medical education is becoming increasingly multi-modal and multifaceted. Educators use a wealth of devices such as mannequins and task trainers, involve actors playing simulated patients and increasingly use screen-based simulations as well, ranging from narratives to immersive worlds like Second Life. Despite the richness of this continuum, until recently each modality has stood alone, unable to connect or interoperate with any other. This presentation will review new ways in which the simulation continuum is being joined together using new technical methods and emerging data specifications.

12:30–2:00 PM

Birds of a Feather Lunch

Flock with your colleagues and discuss areas of common interest.

• Second Life
• Virtual Patient design
• Virtual Patient development 
• Instructional design and technology
• E-portfolios
• Social networking and web 2.0
• Competence assessment
• Open educational resources

2:00–3:00 PM

Unconferences

Interoperability is Dangerous and Destructive

Moderated by Rachel Ellaway, PhD

Interoperability holds out the promise of increased convenience, economy and efficacy for the information systems used throughout medical education. However, like any technocratic undertaking the presumption of benefit with no negative impact is somewhat naive. This session will take a fresh look at some of the darker sides of interoperability including considering who the real winners and losers are. Will the interoperability imperative survive intact? Visit http://groups.medbiq.org/medbiq/display/AC09/Home to share your ideas before the conference.

Competence Assessment: Myriad Methods, Do Any Of Them Work?

Moderated by Sean Hilton, MD

Effective and accurate competence assessment is at the core of health professions education, licensure, and certification efforts. And assessment methods and documentation conventions are constantly evolving. Are these new methods, such as e-portfolios, virtual patients, effective and accurate? Visit http://groups.medbiq.org/medbiq/display/AC09/Home to share your ideas before the conference.

Facebook and Social Networking - Can this Really Help me Learn?

Moderated by James B. Mcgee, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, and Benjamin Azan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and MedBiquitous

Many have touted the capabilities of facebook and other social networking applications to facilitate learning, but do these applications really help learners? Discuss different social networking approaches, what works, and what doesn't from both the perspective of an educator and a learner. Visit http://groups.medbiq.org/medbiq/display/AC09/Home to share your ideas before the conference.

3:00–3:20 PM

Break

3:20–5:00 PM

Innovation Demonstrations

Virtual Patients In Virtual Worlds

Emily Conradi¹; Sheetal Kavia¹; Luke Woodham¹; David Burden²; Terry Poulton^1
1St Georges University of London; ²Daden Limited

Open Source Player - Challenges Encountered When Implementing the MedBiquitous VP Player Specification

Benjamin Azan, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and MedBiquitous

Implications Of Adopting the MedBiquitous VP and Healthcare LOM Standards? Lessons Learned From the Web-SP Project

Nabil Zary; Uno GH Fors
Karolinska Institutet

Using MedBiquitous Standards in RESTful Web Services

Carl Singer;  Andy Rabin
CECity

UCHC Virtual Patient: Clinical Case Adaptive Simulation Environment

Yanko F Michea; Joshua Simon
University of Connecticut Health Center

Demonstration Of the Campus Learning and Teaching System For Virtual Patients

Jörn Heid; Hess Frank; Simone Huber; Sören Huwendiek; Martin Haag
Centre for Virtual Patients Heidelberg Medical Centre

The Riverside Tool-kit For Easy-to-create Standards-Compliant Content

Colin Smythe; Natalie Lafferty; Stephen Allan,
IVIMEDS

Competency Resource Tools: Developing and Managing Resources For Competency-based Education

John Voss¹; John Jackson¹; Vladimir Goodkovsky¹; Ye Chen¹; Bonnie Jerome-D'Emilia^2
1University of Virginia; ²Rutgers University

Everything is 'Other': Praxis and Representation of ED2 Encounters

Rachel Ellaway; David Topps
Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Building Bridges: Linking the SOERCE with MedEdPORTAL

Laurie Posey; Laurie Lyons
The George Washington University

5:00–7:00 PM

Reception in Exhibit Hall and Presentation of Awards

Thursday April 30, 2009

7:15–9:15 AM

Continental Breakfast

7:30–9:15 AM

Concurrent Working Group Meetings

Competency Working Group

Professional Profile Working Group

9:15–10:25 AM

Concurrent Panels

9:15–10:25 AM

Virtual Patients and Pedagogy

Simucase For Teaching and Testing Clinical Reasoning: A Pilot Study  (PPT, 1.1 MB)

Timothy G Willett; Simon Abrahamson; Angele Landriault; Pierre Cardinal; Patti O'Brien; Brad Genereaux
CRI Critical Care Education Network

The Replacement Of Paper Cases By Interactive Online Virtual Patients In Problem-based Learning  (PPT, 2.5 MB)

Terry Poulton; Sheetal Kavia; Trupti Bakrania; Jonathon Round
St George’s University of London

What Does That Mean? Author Selection Of Virtual Patient Metrics  (PPT, 2.2 MB)

Rachel Ellaway; David Topps
Northern Ontario School of Medicine

9:15–10:25 AM

E-learning Technology and Implementation

The Future Of SCORM  (PPT, 3.6 MB)

Avron Barr, LETSI

WebOSCE: A Novel On-line Technology For Providing In-time Practice Of Interpersonal Skills
http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/webosce/

Christof Juerg Daetwyler; Dennis Howard Novack
Drexel University College of Medicine

Redesigning a Content Delivery System, TUSK, for the Small Screen: Bringing a Web-based LMS to the Small Screen, a Ubiquitous Appliance in the Developing World  (PPT, 5.3 MB)

Susan Albright, Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase

9:15–10:25 AM

Second Life and Healthcare Education

Ubiquitous Computing Using Second Life For Online Health Informatics Students  (PPT, 19.0 MB)

Juliana J. Brixey PhD, MPH, RN; Judith J. Warren PhD, RN, BC, FAAN, FACM
University of Kansas School of Nursing

Health Preparedness Training in Second Life: Lessons Learned  (PPT, 3 MB)

Karen Ngowe, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Virtual Patient and Medical Device Simulation In Second Life: the Use Of Immersive Virtual Worlds For Learning and Patient Safety  (PDF, 3.9 MB)

David I Taylor MSc MBCS; Robin Winter; Mark Chan; Rachel Davies BA (Hons); James Kinross BSc (Hons) MRCS (Eng); Ara Darzi FMedSci HonFREng KBE
Imperial College London

10:25–10:50 AM

Break

10:50 AM–
12:00 PM

CONCURRENT PANELS

10:50 AM–12:00 PM

Virtual Patient Technology and Implementation

A Standards-Compliant Virtual Patient Authoring System  (PPT, 1.1 MB)

James McGee; Peter Kant; Gary Tabas
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Implementation Of the MVP Standard By Five European VP Systems - Challenges and Recommendations  (PPT, 1 MB)

Tudor Calinici¹, David Davies⁴, Jeroen Donkers⁵, Inga Hege⁶, Jörn Heid³, Andrzej Kononowicz⁸, Luke Woodham², Nabil Zary^7
1University Iuliu Hatieganu Cluj Napoca Romania; ²St George's University of London; ³The Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University; ⁴The University of Warwick; 5Universiteit Maastricht; 6Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen; ⁷Karolinska Institutet; ⁸Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

Implementation Of A MedBiquitous Virtual Patient Compatible Web-player  (PPT, 1 MB)

Jörn Heid; Frank Hess; Simone Huber; Martin Haag,
Centre for Virtual Patients, Heidelberg Medical Centre

10:50 AM–
12:00 PM

E-learning Pedagogy

Group Communication and Point Of Care Learning  (PPT, 1.6 MB)

David Topps, Northern Ontario School of Medicine

Collaboration: Distinct Points Of View  (PPT, 1.8 MB)

Michael Feldman MD FASCP³; Becky Harris CPT CPLP¹; Chitra Subramaniam¹; Andrea Bergquist^2
1American Society for Clinical Pathology; ²Synegen Inc; ³University of Pennsylvania Health System

Collaborative and Sharable Healthcare E-learning  (PPT, 7.4 MB)

David Twitchell¹; Rebecca Bodrero^2
1Department of Veterans Affairs; ²Concurrent Technologies Corporation

10:50 AM–
12:00 PM

Tracking Professional Development

Applying the Professional Profile Standard. A Real World Example Of How the Professional Profile Is Used  (PPT, 816 KB)

Annette Gippe; Mike Zarski
AOIA

Online, Just In Time, Electronic Certificate Exchange: A Case Study In Leveraging the MedBiquitous Activity Report XML Standard   (PPT, 1 MB)

Benjamin Greenberg¹; Leah Wang¹; Annette Gippe⁴; Tarang Shah²; Carl Singer³; Andrew Rabin^3
1Medscape; ²American Osteopathic Association; ³CECity, ⁴AOIA

The Role Of Open Source Web Technologies In Continuing Medical Education: A Case Study  (PPT, 2.7 MB)

Jeremy C Lundberg¹; Logan Thomison^2
1DLC Solutions; ²OptumHealth Education

12:00–2:00 PM

Lunch and Concurrent Working Group Meetings

Activity Report Working Group

Metrics Working Group

2:00–3:15 PM

Closing Plenary Session

2:00–3:15 PM

Managing Intellectual Property in an Interconnected World   (PPT, 260 KB)

Gabrielle Campbell, M.B.A., Director, Business Development, Association of American Medical Colleges

The Internet and standards for educational content have both enabled widespread sharing and distribution of healthcare education content across organizational and often national boundaries. While such developments bring a wealth of opportunity, they also bring a number of challenges related to copyright, consent, and licensing. Ms. Campbell examines these intellectual property challenges and offers her perspective on managing them in a world that is becoming ever more interconnected.

Synthesis and Summary Synthesis and Summary

Nancy Davis, Ph.D., National Institute for Quality Improvement and Education
Don E. Detmer, MD, M.A., American Medical Informatics Association  (PPT, 188 KB)
Sean Hilton, MD, St. George’s, University of London

3:15–3:30 PM

Break

3:30–5:00 PM

Concurrent Working Group Meetings

Learning Objects Working Group

Point of Care Learning Working Group