MedEdPORTAL

1
MedEdPORTAL Formerly Educational Reference
Center
Chris Candler, MD Association of American
Medical Colleges
Fourth Annual Graylyn Conference September 12,
2005
2
What Is MedEdPORTAL?A Mechanism to Peer Review,
Disseminate, and Recognize Educational Scholarship
3
So, What is MedEdPORTAL, Really?

• A place to peer review and publish teaching
  materials
• Gain formal recognition at the national level
• Share resources broadly
• Obtain extensive feedback
• An index of peer reviewed resources that faculty
  may search, obtain, and use
• An dynamic inventory of Virtual Patients

4
A A M C
Faculty Need Scholarly Recognition
P E E R R E V I E W
CurrMIT
MedEdPORTAL
Virtual Patients
Assessment Materials
Instructional Materials
Faculty Need Curriculum Information
Faculty Need Educational Materials
5
MedEdPORTAL Resource Formats
6
www.aamc.org/mededportal
7
Searching MedEdPORTAL
8
Our Goal
9
Our Goal
10
MedEdPORTAL Timeline
Annual Meeting
April
2005
2006

Unveiled at AAMC Annual Meeting!

Version I

• Peer review external resources (in any format)
• Email/mail submissions

Version II

• Database infrastructure allows searching
  submission
• Resources continue to be external
• Personalized MyMedEdPORTAL

11
(No Transcript)
12
Planning Peer Review

• AAMC Peer Review Task Force (Summer 04)
• Designed a generic peer review instrument
• Likert-type items open-ended items
• MedEdPORTAL Editorial Board (Jan 05)
• Representatives from each GEA section and region
• Developed a comprehensive Peer Review Policy and
  process

13
Peer Review Process

• Preliminary screening by AAMC staff.
• Two independent reviewers.
• Possible Review Outcomes
• Accept
• Provisional Accept with Revisions
• Reject
• The entire screening and review process will
  require approximately 4-6 weeks.

14
Educational Scholarship The Local Institutional
Challenge

• Challenge many institutions have different
  standards for promotion tenure.
• Solution develop and disseminate
• A guide for faculty to help them understand how
  to document their publication in a cv promotion
  dossier
• A guide for P T Committees that helps them
  understand Ed Scholarship, the MedEdPORTAL peer
  review process the literature
• Tools to help faculty self-assess their material
  before they submit

15
Current Statistics (as of today)

• Total Submissions90 (since March 05)
• Reviewers 250
• Final Publication Decision for 24 items

Submissions by Month
We Welcome Your Submissions!
16
An Important Partner MedBiquitous

• ANSI accredited developer of medical education
  standards
• AAMC is engaged in standards development
  regarding
• Learning Objects
• Virtual Patients
• (Competency Framework Standards?)

www.medbiq.org
17

• Virtual Patients

MedEdPORTAL Providing Online Resources To Advance
Learning In Medical Education
18
What are Virtual Patients (VPs)?

• Interactive computer programs that simulate
  real-life clinical scenarios in which the learner
  acts as a physician obtaining a history and
  physical exam and making diagnostic and
  therapeutic decisions.

19
Purposes of Virtual Patient Inventory

• Determine prevalence of virtual patients at AAMC
  member schools
• Understand the current uses of virtual patients
• Determine content coverage
• Survey willingness to share
• So, what did we learn?

20
103 Virtual Patients Characteristics
21
Institutions are Willing to Share
22
Virtual Patients are Expensive to Produce
23
Virtual Patients Take Time to Produce
24
Multiple Funding Sources Have Been Used
25
Questions?