Transcript The Development of a Data Standard for Virtual Patients

Learning Objects Working Group
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Morgan Bantly, Chair
[email protected]
Healthcare Learning Object
Metadata
Status: Candidate standard
The opportunity
For organizations that create a lot of
learning content and activities, it can be
difficult to find the right content when and
where it is needed. As a result, learners
miss learning opportunities and developers
reinvent learning content, increasing the
cost of education development.
Healthcare LOM provides a standard way
to describe learning activities and content,
making it easier to catalogue activities and
find them.
A standards-based approach
Standardizing the description for learning
activities makes it easier for the disparate
organizations in healthcare education to
work together. Organizations can work
together to form collections of learning
resources that work together, allowing
learners to search across repositories to
find the content that best fits their needs.
Systems can automate repository
searches to integrate educational
resources where they are needed.
In addition, Healthcare LOM serves as a
foundation piece for other MedBiquitous
specifications. It can be used to describe
activities in a digital CE certificate (using
Activity report) or in an outcomes
evaluations report (using Medical
Education Metrics). Healthcare LOM can
also be used to tie learning activities to
competency frameworks.
References if necessary
More Information
Title: Preventing sports injuries
Target audience: Patient
Title: Aresenic Toxicity
Keyword: Environmental medicine, MeSh
D019550
http://www.medbiq.org/working_groups/
learning_objects/index.html
Health
Education
Database
B
Target audience: Physician, registered nurse
Credits:: CME 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1;
CNE 1.7 contact hours
Specifications, schemas, and draft
implementation guidelines available.
Working Group Members
Healthcare LOM standardizes cataloging of health education content making it easier
for professionals and patients to find the resources they need while enabling other
systems to search and access resources.
CE
Evaluation
Evidence
based
practice
Quality
improvement
Patient
centered
care
Informatics
Competencies
Healthcare LOM can be used to describe educational activities within digital CE or
MoC certificates and evaluation reports. Healthcare LOM also has fields that
facilitate linking activities to competency frameworks.
• Patti Abbott
• Trupti Bakrania
• Ravi Teja
Bhupatiraju
• Gabrielle
Campbell
• Chris Candler
• Dawn Carroll
• David Davies
• Nancy Davis
• Sharon Dennis
• Shona Dippie
• Rachel Ellaway
• Nancy Gathany
• Stuart Gilman
• William Hersh
• Lorena Hitchens
• Julie Lambla
• Tao Le
• Joy Leffler
• Ross Martin
• Jim Martino
• Sandra McIntyre
• Don O'Guin
• Jennifer Ott
• Beth Powell
• Andrew Rabin
• Dan Rehak
• Mike Rowan
• Chris Rueger
• Jorge Ruiz
• Deborah Sher
• Damon Silver
• Carl Singer
• Sebastian Uijtdehaage
• David Ward
• Charles Willis
• Walter Wolyniec
Where Next?
The Learning Objects Working Group is
refining its implementation guidelines and
SCORM for Healthcare guidelines based
on participant experience. In addition, the
group is examining licensing and privacy
requirements around reusable healthcare
content.
www.medbiq.org