Multimedia Assets Management for Health Sciences Education Sandra McIntyre, M.Ed. Program Manager.

Multimedia Assets Management forHealth Sciences Education

Sandra McIntyre, M.Ed.Program Manager

HEAL Mission

To provide free digital multimedia teaching resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today’s health sciences educators and learners. HEAL promotes the preservation and exchange of useful educational assets within a worldwide community, while respecting ownership and privacy.

Objectives High quality materials Access at no cost Cataloged with health sciences content

metadata Sophisticated searching engine National scope

Collaboration Multi-institutional:

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA University of Oklahoma College of Medicine Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library,

University of Utah Multidisciplinary:

Health sciences libraries Health sciences educators

Team Primary investigators:

Sharon Dennis, MS -- University of Utah Chris Candler, MD -- University of Oklahoma Sebastian Uijtdehaage, PhD -- UCLA

Nine other staff members (6.5 FTE’s) at the three locations

New grant with Health Sciences Library at University of California, San Francisco

Support Grant support:

National Science Foundation’s National Science Digital Library initiative

National Library of Medicine

Direct support (proposed): Association of American

Medical Colleges (AAMC)

Initial Collection Scope

Gross Anatomy Histology Physiology Biochemistry Neuroscience Molecular Biology

Genetics Pathology Microbiology Epidemiology Pharmacology

‘Typical’ undergraduate medical education curriculum, with basic sciences initially:

Histologyimage

Anatomyimage

Pathologyimage

X-Rayimage

Typical assets

MRIimage

Typical assets

Video

Animation

Web page

Additional formats to come Text Presentations Chemical structures Java applets Patient cases

Federated Collection

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HEALAppn

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E

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HEALIndex

User

Repository/Referatory

Tiered Architecture

Metadata Schema Based on Instructional Management Systems (IMS)

standard Additional fields for health sciences use, with

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) 26 content elements (8 required) Broad support important Grant funding to implement concept mapping to the

Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) metathesaurus

MeSH Search Applet

Browsing by MeSH Terms

Latest additions Neurologic Exam videos Tobacco Awareness Program

University of Miami School of Medicine Knowledge Weavers animations MedlinePLUS Patient Education tutorials

Collection Development Formalizing:

Collection Development Policy Accessioning Workflow

OAI tools in place Full-time cataloger Offers from more than 50 partner

organizations and individual contributors Spring 2004 goal: 50,000 items

Accessioning Methods

Contributing online

Initial Partners Knowledge Weavers, University of Utah BioScience Educational Network (BEN) Pathology Education Instructional Resource (PEIR) Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and

Online Teaching (MERLOT) health sciences resources

Tufts University Sciences Knowledgebase (TUSK) Molsen Project at McGill University NLM’s EtherMed Small collections from ‘Slice of Life’ community

Building a Culture of Sharing Free access Peer review of multimedia contributions Clearing out copyright confusion Assisting with cataloging Assisting with maintaining patient privacy AAMC endorsement

Protecting Intellectual Property Creative Commons

licensing engine

Protecting Patient Privacy Federal Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA): new requirements

HEAL’s new patient release form – conforms to HIPAA and California regulations

Next Challenges Integration with curriculum management system

(AAMC’s CurrMIT) Metadata for more complex objects

Cases, particularly “virtual patient” cases Quizzes Tutorials

Peer review online tools Online user reviews Consumer and patient education interface

Enhanced Discovery NLM three-year grant in July 2003:

Lexical tools, results ranking, and other search enhancements

Concept mapping to Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) metathesaurus

Training and user support

Portable Version for Localized Use NLM three-year grant October 2003:

Modifications to HEAL code Pilot and testing at three medical schools Training and support materials

High demand Links to national HEAL at user’s option

For more information

Health Education Assets Library website:www.healcentral.org

Sandra McIntyre, M.Ed.Program [email protected]. 310-267-2873