MedBiquitous August 2008 Newsletter
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Call for Abstracts
Have you implemented MedBiquitous standards? Are you using technology to improve the way your organization delivers learning and assessment or to coordinate across the health professions? We want to hear about it! The MedBiquitous Executive Committee is seeking high-quality abstracts for half-day workshops, panel presentations, and technology demonstrations for a wide range of conference topics related to innovative technologies for healthcare education, including e-learning, e-portfolios, standards implementation, social networking, virtual patients, and much more. The MedBiquitous Annual Conference takes place April 28-30, 2009 in Baltimore, Maryland. Visit the online Call for Abstracts for details and online abstract submission.
MedBiquitous Europe at AMEE
If you will be participating in the AMEE 2008 Conference in Prague, please visit the MedBiquitous Europe booth, number 6B, in the exhibit hall. Several MedBiquitous members will be presenting sessions related to the activities of MedBiquitous as well.
Sep 1, 15:35 eLearning Standards in Europe, Terry Poulton
Sep 1, 16:30 Virtual Patients in medical and healthcare curricula: How to use them successfully, The eViP Programme team
Sep 2, 11:00 Scenarios for the implementation of VPs into the medical curriculum by the example of JUMC's participation in the eViP-Programme, Aleksandra J Stachon
Sep 3, 9:00 An Anglo-German virtual patient case study exploring ‘repurposing and enriching' as an effective way to share, Jonathan Round
Sep 3, 9:45 The European Electronic Virtual Patient programme – the story so far, Chara Balasubramaniam
In the News
The MedBiquitous Healthcare Professional Profile was highlighted in a recent news article from ANSI, the American National Standards Institute. The article, titled Voluntary Standards Cover the Spectrum: from Recreational Boating to Healthcare Professional Profiles , emphasized the importance of credentials verification in ensuring consumers receive high quality healthcare in everyday life and in response to natural disasters and other emergencies. To learn more about the Healthcare Professional Profile, read the overview.
Membership Update
MedBiquitous welcomes JHPIEGO as a new member. JHPIEGO is an international non-profit health organization that empowers front-line health workers by designing and implementing effective solutions to strengthen the delivery of health care services for women and their families.
