Update on the MedBiquitous Curriculum Inventory Standard Terri Cameron, MA Senior Program Manager, MedAPS
Feb 25, 2016
Update on the MedBiquitous Curriculum Inventory StandardTerri Cameron, MASenior Program Manager, MedAPS
MedAPS: Suite of ServicesMedical Academic Performance ServicesProvide AAMC member medical schools with the tools necessary to assess, maintain and fulfill accreditation standards and promote continuous improvement.
Curriculum Reportswww.aamc.org/curriculumreports
ASSET(Accreditation Standards
Self-Evaluation Tool)
ASSET DashboardCurriculum Inventory
(Replacing CurrMIT)
MedAPS Goals• Empower Curriculum Administrators and
Committees with data to support curriculum oversight and reform.
• Reduce the work needed for schools to produce accreditation documentation.
• Streamline AAMC’s data collection and reporting.
• Enable medical schools to enhance continuous quality improvement efforts.
• Provide medical schools with resources/solutions to address deficiencies.
Curriculum Inventory
13 Participating Curriculum Management System Vendors
Curriculum Inventory Focus Groups (Summer/Fall 2010) MedBiquitous CI Working Group (2011-2012) CI Standards Release (March 2012) CMS Vendor Retreat (May 2012) Retreats for Medical School CMS Developers
(Summer/Fall 2012) Begin CI Development (Summer 2012) Begin Importing Data (Summer 2013) Release for Reporting (Fall 2013) CurrMIT taken offline (January 2014)
MedBiquitous Competencies Working GroupSusan Albright and Marc Triola, co-chairsLaunched in December 2010Charter: • “to develop XML standards for the exchange of
curriculum data for benchmarking and educational research.”
Reasons for undertaking workEnable local curriculum management systems to upload data to a central Curriculum InventoryIdentify curricular trendsSupport curriculum benchmarking and reform
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• A curriculum is made up of many education and assessment events
• Events have metadata, descriptive information about the events
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• Curricula may reference objectives , competencies, or learning outcomes.
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Expectations and Events
• An event may be intended to address one or more expectation (learning objectives, competencies, etc.)
• An expectation may be associated with many events
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Sequence Blocks• Events can be organized into blocks
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• A recurring event may be associated with more than one Sequence Block
• Sequence blocks may be associated with expectations (competencies, objectives, etc.)
• Sequence blocks have metadata, too
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Integration Blocks• Curricular themes, or
Integration Blocks, may apply to many sequence blocks, events, or expectations and describe how the curriculum is semantically integrated.
• An Integration Block may link to many events, blocks or objects
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• Sequence blocks can be put together to form a the main structure of the curriculum (a sequence of courses, modules, phases, clerkships)
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Includes Competency objects and frameworks
Instructional and Assessment methodsResources (virtual patient, etc)
Accreditation Standard
Self-Evaluation
Tool (ASSET)
ASSET Dashboard
Medbiquitous Data Exchange Standard
Curriculum Inventory
Curriculum data mapped to a competency hierarchy (competencies to course objectives to session objectives) are uploaded to the
Curriculum Inventory (CI) from school systems using the Medbiquitous CI data exchange standard (www.medbiq.org).
Aggregate reports on competency-based learning and assessment, as well as curriculum content and pedagogy will be run from the CI.
The CI will provide curriculum data to the LCME pre-populated database (ASSET) and the MAP Dashboard (www.aamc.org/medaps).
Standardized Vocabulary for Instructional
Methods, Assessment
Methods, and Resources
Institutionally-developed
competencies will be matched to Health Care Competency
Set
Vendor and
School –developed
Curriculum Management
Systems
Curriculum Inventory
Connection to Competency Standard and Educational Trajectory Standard
MedAPS: More Information
Email: [email protected]: www.aamc.org/medapsPhone: 202-828-0496
Specs and Schemas Available At:http://medbiq.org/curriculum_inventory
Status: Pending review of Standards Committee