1. Update on the MedBiquitous Curriculum Inventory Standard Terri Cameron, MA Senior Program Manager, MedAPS

2. MedAPS: 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 ASSET (Accreditation Standards Self-Evaluation Tool ) ASSET Dashboard Curriculum Inventory (Replacing CurrMIT)

3. 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.

4. Curriculum Inventory 13 Participating Curriculum Management System Vendors

5. 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)

6. MedBiquitous 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.”

7. 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

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

9. Expectations Curricula may reference objectives, competencies, or learning outcomes. 1 2 4 5 7 8 1011 3 6 9 12

10. 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 G K 1 2 6 2

11. Sequence Blocks 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 A E B F C G DH I J K L A 1 2 7

12. 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 A E B F C G DH I J K L A M E O N C G SH I J P R Q 1 3 2

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

14. Includes Competency objects and frameworks

15. Instructional and Assessment methods Resources (virtual patient, etc)

17. Accreditation Standard Self- Evaluation Tool (ASSET) ASSET Dashboard Medbiquitous Data Exchange Standard 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).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).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

18. Connection to Competency Standard and Educational Trajectory Standard

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