Current Projects
This project combines skill sets of both academic and enterprise partners to make Scenario Based Learning (SBL) more accessible for a wide range of professions. Developments will include the ability to embed SBL activities directly into learning platforms and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
By embedding SBL, MOOCS will enable development of real world skills, competency and experience rather than knowledge. The provision of training materials in multiple languages, including a ‘How to create Virtual Scenarios’ MOOC, will make VS more accessible for educators. The project will sustain and disseminate these activities through an extended partnership, the ‘WAVES’ network.
Scenario-based learning (SBL) techniques are widely recognised as a key tool in the educational toolkit, for safe training in competency and decision-making, but the available applications are challenging for educators to understand and use without considerable resource and effort.
Objectives:
- Develop and make accessible to the wider educational community, SBL applications to promote new learning and teaching methods
- Extend massive courses, replacing their oversimplified assessments and activities, with learning activities that are more engaging and authentic
- Share knowledge and provide end-user support guides and training, to reach a critical mass of learning resource creators and a large end user audience
- Impact different professional groups and networks linked to the partners, through both direct involvements and responsibilities within those groups or networks, or through a series of engagement/dissemination events, and processes.
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WAVES flyer
The overall objective of this project is to introduce innovative pedagogical methods that will provide training for students against medical error. TAME will innovate curricula towards teaching and learning in a safe environment and closer to the needs of real practice, where medical errors occur.
Objectives:
- Develop a Virtual Patient methodology based on virtual case histories to enable future physicians to avoid most common medical errors in the diagnostic and therapeutic process on a safe environment, before exposure to real patients.
- Transfer knowledge and experience from the institutions which have already gone through a successful implementation of learning methods in paediatrics; develop Paediatric (modules) in each institution as exemplar studies.
- Use the experiences gained in the exemplar study to create similar resources in different clinical attachment areas in each institution.
- Use supra-regional ePBLnet, MEFANET, and other medical education networks to create, share and disseminate these multi-lingual, multi-cultural resources aimed at avoiding or decreasing medical errors.
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TAME flyer
MEDCIN proposes an innovative methodological background including web-based visualization tool for comprehensive evaluation and map of medical curricula with the use of modern information and communication technologies. We aim to identify and validate novel, potentially useful patterns, which will significantly help curriculum managers/evaluators to make right decisions, and afterwards build a well-balanced medical curriculum.
The project will be based on the MedBiquitous Consortium, the leading organization in the development and promotion of technology standards for the health professions.
There is an ever increasing need for standardised curricula in medical education, particularly within the EU. The need for free movement of skilled workers and the demands of the Bologna Process require a consistency of approach by higher education institutions to ensure that learners have a shared level of knowledge. A comprehensive platform that would provide the necessary instruments for easy in-depth curriculum management is required, but no suitable platform is currently available. For any platform to achieve these goals, it is essential that data standards be used to enable the systems to communicate across organisations and implementations.
The need for standardized curriculum particularly in medical education is indispensable. Today a comprehensive platform that would cover all necessary instruments for easy in-depth curriculum management is still missing. For any platform to achieve these goals, it is essential that data standards are used to enable the systems to communicate across organizations and implementations.
Objectives:
- Standardize medical curriculum management system (OPTIMED platform)
- Propose innovative methodological background to evaluate and map medical curricula
- Build an original model to compare medical curricula
- Foster increased awareness of existing educational standards produced by MedBiquitous
- Provide an exemplar implementation for dissemination of best practice.
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