MedBiquitous January 2008 Newsletter
Contents
- MedBiquitous Europe
- Darrell Kirch to Speak at MedBiquitous Annual Conference
- Scott and Campbell named to MedBiquitous Board of Directors
- E-learning News
- Membership Update
- Happy New Year!
MedBiquitous Europe
MedBiquitous and St. George's University of London are pleased to announce the formation of MedBiquitous Europe, a collaboration to promote the adoption and implementation of MedBiquitous technical standards and specifications for healthcare education within Europe. The immediate priority of MedBiquitous Europe will be to inform and guide standards implementation in the European Comission-supported Electronic Virtual Patients (eViP) project, which is establishing a shared bank of multilingual, multicultural virtual patients for reuse and repurposing. The eViP project leverages the emerging MedBiquitous Virtual Patient standard for the exchange of virtual patient cases.
Darrell Kirch to Speak at MedBiquitous Annual Conference
Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges, will provide the keynote address for the 2008 MedBiquitous Annual Conference. Dr. Kirsch will speak about the changing environment for medical education and the role of technology in that changing environment. Registration will be available shortly. Stay tuned for more details!
Scott and Campbell named to MedBiquitous Board of Directors
MedBiquitous is delighted to announce the addition of Rosalyn Scott, M.D. and Gabrielle Campbell, M.B.A. to the MedBiquitous Board of Directors. Dr. Scott is Director of Surgery at the Dayton Veterans Administration Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at Wright State University as well as the co-chair of the MedBiquitous Competency Working Group. She has been featured in the National Library of Medicine’s “Changing the Face of Medicine” exhibit for her accomplishments in thoracic surgery. Ms. Campbell is the Director of Business Development at the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Chair of the MedBiquitous Standards Committee. She has also served as chair for the Licensing Executives Society’s Digital Content Committee.
MedBiquitous is grateful to its retiring directors, Dr. Mike Magee, Dr. Robert Replogle, and Dr. Bruce Spivey, for their guidance, enthusiasm, and continued support.
E-learning News
Do you have e-learning news relevant to healthcare educators? Tell us about it! Let us know if you've released a cool tool or resource, authored a report, or embarked on research relevant to e-learning. Add your news the MedBiquitous e-learning news wiki. We may use your contributions for the E-learning News feature of the journal Medical Teacher.
Visit http://groups.medbiq.org/medbiq/display/ELN/Home to read or contribute e-learning news.
Membership Update
MedBiquitous is honored to welcome the following new members: Advanced Informatics, American Board of Surgery, AXDEV Group International, Med-IQ , Medpage Today, Sanofi Aventis, University of Michigan, and University of Pittsburgh.
Advanced Informatics develops web- and PDA-based healthcare education solutions, including on-line evaluations for academic medical organizations. The American Board of Surgery is an independent, non-profit organization founded in 1937 for the purpose of certifying surgeons who have met a defined standard of education, training and knowledge. AXDEV Group International is an international organization that focuses on continuous assessment of organizational and professional performance in the healthcare sector (diagnostics of behaviors, program effectiveness and contextual operations).
Med-IQ delivers education that brings measurable change in healthcare professional competency with the goal of improving performance and patient outcomes. MedPage Today provides a medical news service for physicians that links consumer medical news and the professional medical analysis needed by clinicians. Sanofi-Aventis, a leading global pharmaceutical company, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone. Internationally renowned for research and education, the University of Michigan offers a wide variety of degree programs for undergraduate and graduate students. The University of Pittsburgh is an internationally recognized center of learning and research.
Happy New Year!
The new year is a time for reflection and resolution. 2007 was a year of great accomplishment for MedBiquitous, and with your participation, 2008 will be even better. We’re grateful to work with such outstanding thought leaders and innovators in healthcare education. Thank you for your continued commitment to advance healthcare education and for volunteering your time and energy towards achieving our common goals.
Best wishes to all!
From Peter, Valerie, Jody and Cate
