Discovering Standards-based Learning at Point of Care

产品说明： 目前的方法继续医学教育（CME）是不够的，有几个原因。首先，简单地通过讲座和科学文章向被动学习者提供内容已被证明在改变医生行为方面基本无效。第二，继续医学教育的内容很少针对个人的具体知识不足。第三，没有简单的方法可以找到针对这些缺陷的具体内容。教育材料存储在信息孤岛中，无法与外部系统进行互操作。最后，尽管许多教育工作者和专业团体努力定义医学课程，但没有标准将医学课程中的学习目标和能力与教育内容联系起来。 我们建议建立一个开放和可扩展的信息系统，解决这些缺点。 该系统包括： - 一个由Web服务驱动的网关，通过它，学习者将能够在多个分布式系统上发现课程。该网关将允许学习者根据临床能力和其他标准搜索课程。 - 一个元数据存储库，用于收集多个系统上的教育资源信息。 资源将使用MedBiquitous/SCORM元数据进行标记，并与医学课程中的能力相关联。 - 存储可搜索医学课程的课程库。 - 一个Web服务注册中心，使网关能够与系统中的多个存储库进行互操作。 所产生的系统将在临床环境中部署，并通过可用性测试进行评价。 该软件将作为开放源码软件免费分发，由此产生的标准将得到推广，以供广泛采用。

DESCRIPTION: Current approaches to continuing medical education (CME) are inadequate for a number of reasons. First, simply providing content to passive learners through lectures and scientific articles has been shown to be largely ineffective in changing physician behavior. Second, CME content rarely targets an individual's specific deficiencies in knowledge. Third, there is no simple means of finding content specific to those deficiencies. Educational materials are stored in information silos that are unable to interoperate with outside systems. Finally, despite efforts by many educators and specialty groups to define medical curricula, there are no standards to link the learning objectives and competencies within medical curricula to educational content. We propose to build an open and extensible information system that addresses many of these shortcomings. The system includes: - A gateway, driven by Web Services, through which learners will be able to discover courses on multiple distributed systems. The gateway will allow learners to search for courses based on clinical competency and other criteria. - A metadata repository that harvests information about educational resources on multiple systems. Resources will be tagged using MedBiquitous/SCORM metadata and linked to competencies within medical curricula. - A curriculum repository that stores searchable medical curricula. - A Web Services registry that enables the gateway to interoperate with multiple repositories within the system. The resulting system will be deployed in clinical environments and undergo evaluation with usability testing. The software will be freely distributed as open-source software and the resulting standards will be promoted for widespread adoption.