Free and Open Information Resources Available for OBGYN Education

Free and Open

Information Resources

Available for OBGYN

Education

Kathleen Ludewig Omollo,

University of Michigan Medical School

Shared at: slideshare.net/tag/sphmmc-obgyn-2015

Presentation to St. Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College OBGYN

Department, January 29, 2015. Copyright 2015 The Regents of the University of Michigan.

Shared under a Creative Commons Attribution License. 1

Who am I?

Previous Role: International Program Manager

for an office within Medical School Information

Services that focused on creating technology

and electronic resources for medical education.

Current Role: Strategy Officer in the

Department of Learning Health Sciences.

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Who am I?

I am not a health professional, but I work with

them.

At SPHMMC, my role is to support SPHMMC in

becoming an exemplar in the integration of ICT

for productivity, collaboration, and analysis

across the education, research, and clinical

service missions.

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Overall Goal for OBGYN

Make it easier for you to find, to access, and to

create your own educational resources for

OBGYN at SPHMMC

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Session Goal for OBGYN

1. Share with you 3 groups of free learning

resources that you can use for health and

for OBGYN.

1. Show you how you can access some of

these resources offline from the Learning

Resource Center.

1. Share with you 2 options for increasing

visibility for learning resources that you

create.5

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Free, Open Resources for Health & OBGYN

Image CC:BY-NC-SA Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and

Technology

Open Educational

Resources (OER)

Educational resources with three qualities:

1. Free

2. Publicly available

3. Licensed to allow copies, adaptations,

and distribution

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This license

graphic is

the easiest

way to tell if

something

is OER.

What does this mean?

CC = Creative Commons Licenses

This means a resource is “some rights

reserved instead of “all rights reserved.”

You can legally copy, share, and modify

these resources with only few rules.

These can be made available offline.9

Open Health Collections

www.open.umich.edu/education/med/openheal

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Great starting point to find health OER from

dozens of institutions around the world –

including courses, books, videos, graphics,

data, journals, software, and other content.

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GLOWM

The Global Library of Women’s Medicine

www.glowm.com

Thousands of resources, includes hundreds of

book chapters, all for health professionals who

work in maternal and child health.

These do not have use Creative Commons

licenses but have custom licenses that allow

copying – including for offline. 11

GLOWM

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Source:

www.glowm.com

1000 OBGYNs in Africa

• www.1000obgyns.org

• Consortium of 18 African Institutions and

partner U.S. institutions for OBGYN residency

• Book and 3 collections at

www.open.umich.edu/education/med/1000obg

yns/ for OER specifically for OBGYN

• Hypertensive Disorders in Pregnancy

• OBGYN Hot/Priority Topics

• Curriculum Milestone Topics

• Includes resources by SPHMMC colleagues13

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Source:

www.open.umich.edu

/education/med/1000

obgyns/

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Demo: Offline Access

Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)

Library Box, Rpi, BPi

• These are offline WiFi access points you

may see on campus, including in the

Learning Resource Center.

• All of these devices broadcast the contents

of a USB flash drive and/or SD card to

people within range of the access point.

• These were designed to share files locally

when the Internet is down.

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Bpi Offline Access:

Try it now• Connect to WiFi network: OER-Bpi.

• Open a web-browser (e.g. Internet app on

Android (not Opera), Firefox, Chrome)

• In address bar, type https://192.168.42.1/

• Click Accept or Proceed for security notice

• Browse the Learning Resources Collection

• Search the collections, from drop-down,

select Learning Resources, enter search

phrase, select all file types

• Browse Additional Disks to download this

presentation 17

Offline

What’s on there:

• 1000 OBGYN

• Other resources selected from Open Health

Collections

What’s coming:

• GLOWM collection

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Share Your Feedback

Let us what you think about the resources• Are you able to access them?

• Are you able to navigate the collection?

• Is what you find useful and relevant?

• Would you like to see additional topics?

• Do you have suggestions for other free and open

resources to add?

• If you are connected to Rpi or Bpi, there is a

survey you can complete on the device.

• I will drop off paper surveys in LRC. 19

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Create and Share Your Own Resources

Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)

Free Websites to Create

and/or Share OER

Both of these tools are used to share public

learning resources and ask to you select

Creative Commons licenses. These make your

creations more visible around the world:

• www.mededportal.org - You can submit to

have your resources peer-reviewed and

include them on your curriculum vitae.

• www.mdcases.net - You can create short,

interactive cases, and quizzes.

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Source: www.mededportal.org

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Source:

www.mdcases.net

Questions?

Email me:

[email protected]

Access these slides:

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Image CC:BY-SA opensourceway (Flickr)