1. Using Spaced Education - A New Automated, Online Educational Method – to Reach Today’s Learners Andrew Schechtman, MD, FAAFP Faculty, San Jose – O’Connor Hospital Family Medicine Residency Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Medicine Founder, MeisterMed

2. Disclosure

3. Interactive Spaced Education (ISE)

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5. Challenges  Maintaining attention  Keeping it fun  Repetition without being repetitive  Proving knowledge acquisition  Tracking and managing learners

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10. The Learner’s Experience

11. SharedEd Site

12. Enroll for a course

13. Choose Course options

14. Get First Q by Email

15. Q in Email

16. Open Q in Website

17. See Results

18. iPhone WebApp

19. FrontPage

20. Login

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22. Question #1

23. Question #1 Details

24. Answering Q#1

25. Results Q#1

26. Explanation Q#1

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28. What’s Unique about Interactive Spaced Education (ISE)?  Bite sized chunks of information  Dispensed over time  Tests knowledge  Fun  Interactive  Everyone succeeds (in the end)  Tracks results  Evidence based

29. Cute but Does it Work?

30. Research Studies  Improves knowledge acquisition  Increases long-term knowledge retention  Changes behavior

31. Two Years Later BolusISE Bolus ISE Kerfoot. J Urol: 2009; 181: 2671-3.

32. Why Does It Work?  Spacing Effect  Testing Effect

33. Potential Uses in Family Medicine  Teach key components of medical student curriculum  Build uniform knowledge base for outside rotations  Document knowledge component for procedural competency  Cement evidence-based, practice guidelines  Gradually drip-feed board review questions

34. Patient Education  Managing your Diabetes  Staying Healthy in the Teenage Years  Parenting Skills for New Parents

35. Building a Interactive Spaced Education Course

36. Course Creation

37. Create Question Content, Answers, Explanation

40. Reports

41. Dashboard

42. Report by Question

43. Report by Question by Each Learner

44. Report by Learner

45. Report by Learner for Each Question

46. Institutional License  Private  Probably $3 / user for one course

47. Limitations  Repetition annoys some users  Email overload  Formats other than multiple choice are limited  Free version makes course public

48. Questions? Contact: andrew@meistermed.comandrew@meistermed.com http://sjochfmr.spaceded.com/  Other uses?  Would your medical students or residents use this?  How might you use this in your program?