Update on the Med Biquitous Curriculum Inventory Standard

Update on the Med. Biquitous Curriculum Inventory Standard Terri Cameron, MA Senior Program Manager, Med. APS

Med. APS: Suite of Services Medical Academic Performance Services Provide AAMC member medical schools with the tools necessary to assess, maintain and fulfill accreditation standards and promote continuous improvement. Curriculum Reports www. aamc. org/curriculumreports Curriculum Inventory (Replacing Curr. MIT) ASSET (Accreditation Standards Self-Evaluation Tool) ASSET Dashboard

Med. APS 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) Med. Biquitous 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) Curr. MIT taken offline (January 2014)

Med. Biquitous Competencies Working Group Susan Albright and Marc Triola, co-chairs Launched in December 2010 Charter: • “to develop XML standards for the exchange of curriculum data for benchmarking and educational research. ”

Reasons for undertaking work Enable local curriculum management systems to upload data to a central Curriculum Inventory Identify curricular trends Support curriculum benchmarking and reform

Events I A E B C D J F G H K L • A curriculum is made up of many education and assessment events • Events have metadata, descriptive information about the events

Expectations 3 1 2 4 7 10 6 5 8 11 9 12 • Curricula may reference objectives , competencies, or learning outcomes.

Expectations and Events 1 G 2 K 2 6 • An event may be intended to address one or more expectation (learning objectives, competencies, etc. ) • An expectation may be associated with many events

Sequence Blocks I A E B F 1 G D 2 K C A J 7 L H • Events can be organized into blocks of instruction, called Sequence Blocks (think course/module/year/phase/clerk ship etc) • 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

Integration Blocks A I E J B 1 F K C A G L D H M 3 I E J O 2 N P C Q G R S H • 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

Sequence A I E J B 1 F K C A G L D H M 3 I E J O 2 N P C Q G R S H • Sequence blocks can be put together to form a the main structure of the curriculum (a sequence of courses, modules, phases, clerkships)

Includes Competency objects and frameworks

Instructional and Assessment methods Resources (virtual patient, etc)

Curriculum Inventory Vendor and School – developed Curriculum Management Systems Institutionallydeveloped competencies will be matched to Health Care Competency Set Standardized Vocabulary for Instructional Methods, Assessment Methods, and Resources Medbiquitous Data Exchange Standard Accreditation Standard Self -Evaluation Tool (ASSET) 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). ASSET Dashboard

Connection to Competency Standard and Educational Trajectory Standard

Specs and Schemas Available At: http: //medbiq. org/curriculum_inventory Status: Pending review of Standards Committee Med. APS: More Information Email: medaps@aamc. org URL: www. aamc. org/medaps Phone: 202 -828 -0496