The Slice of Life Workshop is coming up June 26-30, 2007, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Slice of Life attracts a small unique group of multimedia educators and developers who gather each year to explore and share ideas about using technology in health science education. See http://slice.utah.edu/2007/ for more information.
The International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) 11th Annual Conference is coming up July 21-24, 2007, in Cleveland, Ohio. The event will explore strategies for teaching and learning the fundamental sciences of medicine, with particular focus on the preclinical curriculum. Submissions will be accepted until March 15, 2007. See http://www.iamseconference.org/ for more information.
The HEAL team will be attending both conferences and we look forward to meeting you there! posted by Sharon at 12:50 PM 0 comments
The HEAL co-directors are pleased to announce that Sandra McIntyre, M.Ed., has joined the HEAL team as Strategic Communications Manager. She will assist the HEAL co-directors with strategic planning, grant writing, and developing partner collections. Sandra can be reached at sandra.mcintyre@lib.med.utah.edu. posted by Sharon at 12:49 PM 0 comments
In order to ensure that HEAL is meeting your needs, we will be conducting an online survey in February. Watch for announcements to participate in the survey. The survey data will be compared with a similar survey conducted by the HEAL team in 2003, and results will be shared with the HEAL community. posted by Sharon at 12:48 PM 0 comments
Upcoming New Collections
New collections will be available in HEAL soon:
The Neurological Teaching Videos collection from Wright State University provides health science educators with free access to QuickTime videos of physical signs of neurologic disease along with clinical data and neuroimaging studies about the disease. The collection consists of 462 videos.
The Poja Histology Collection from Dr. Lambert G. Poels and Dr. Paul Jap consists of high quality images from over forty years worth of slides created by members of the UMC-St. Radboud Faculty of Medicine and colleagues involved in collaborative clinical research projects. The best images were integrated into computer assisted training programs to support basic histology, microscopic anatomy, and cell biology instruction. The first subset focused on structures within the oral cavity, and is available at http://www.healcentral.org/healapp/searchResults?publicationId=363&page=1 . The second subset, consisting of 140 images, is dedicated to the histology, immunohistology and electron microscopy of the Respiratory System; it will be available soon. posted by Sharon at 12:39 PM 0 comments
March 2006 — We are pleased to announce a formal partnership between HEAL and Slice of Life, an annual meeting of users and developers of technology to support health sciences education. Visit the Slice of Life Meeting 2006 website at http://slice.utah.edu/. posted by Sandra McIntyre at 6:51 PM
February 2006 — Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library Director Wayne J. Peay has committed to ongoing funding for core HEAL operations and server maintenance at the University of Utah.
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February 2006 — The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) is carrying out a study on Open Educational Resources in higher education. One part of that study is a web based survey for individual teachers, instructors, and researchers using or producing OER. CERI invites anyone working in an institution of higher education who is using or producing open learning content (e.g., courses, courseware, content modules, learning objects, collections, and journals, or open software tools to develop, use, re-use, and deliver learning content) to complete the survey. It will not take more than 10-15 minutes to complete. The deadline is 30 April 2006. The survey is at http://www2.oecd.org/survey/Surveys/TakeSurvey.asp. Respondents will receive a free electronic copy of the final report. For more information regarding the study, please refer to http://www.oecd.org/edu/oer.
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October 2005 — The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) collection continues to grow, with more than 21,000 high-quality materials available for use including the following featured collections:
- Gallery of Hematology Images, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University — Christine Lawrence, MD, Distinguished University Professor of Medicine emerita, developed this impressive collection of almost 600 peer-reviewed images. It surveys most of the hematologic disorders and many infectious diseases evident on examination of blood and bone marrow smears.
- William F. Hoyt Neuro-Ophthalmology Collection from the Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library (NOVEL) — 850+ images from the extensive collection Dr. Hoyt, Professor Emeritus of Ophthalmology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Ophthalmology.
- Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction — A Web-based course combining Medantic Technology's didactic presentations and Medulator virtual patient cases to present information on nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare for healthcare providers.
- Search for MERLOT resources — HEAL users may now search for health sciences resources from the renowned Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) repository, via an experimental Web services-based federated search, at http://www.healcentral.org/search/fedsearch.jsp.
- HEAL resources available in NSDL — HEAL resources now appear in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) at http://nsdl.org. NSDL is a digital library of exemplary resource collections and services, organized in support of science education at all levels. It is now harvesting HEAL metadata via the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) protocol.
June 2005 — HEAL encourages health sciences educators to take advantage of a stimulating program at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE), to be hosted by USC's Keck School of Medicine at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, on July 16-19, 2005. HEAL and IAMSE are forging a strong partnership for outreach to faculty members about shared resources and faculty development opportunities. As part of this new partnership, HEAL co-director Sebastian Uijtdehaage will present a workshop on "Publishing and Reviewing Medical Education Resources" at the Innovations in Technology Supported Learning segment of the program on Sunday July 17.
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June 2005 — HEAL has concluded the pilot phase of its new peer review process, completing the review of 22 submissions — 114 resources in all. HEAL's peer review process began in January with over 100 reviewers and an innovative review form for educational multimedia, developed by a national AAMC task force. We are now evaluating the pilot and have temporarily suspended the review process until we have implemented the changes suggested by the evaluation.
To see the publications that have been accepted, you may search for the resources in the HEAL Reviewed Collection. The acceptance rate for submissions to date has been 60%, with an additional 39% accepted with changes. Only 1% of submissions have been rejected.
We will resume peer review later in the summer, starting with a hefty backlog of over 950 resources that have passed preliminary screening and are awaiting peer review. To get involved in either submitting or reviewing educational resources, please see more information on the Peer Review page or contact Editor Sebastian Uijtdehaage at submissions@healcentral.org.
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June 2005 — Carlos A.C. Baptista has agreed to serve as the Managing Editor of HEAL's Clinical Sciences Review Board, effective immediately. Dr. Baptista is an Assistant Professor at the Medical University of Ohio at Toledo, in the Department of Neurosciences, College of Medicine, and the Department of Public Health, College of Health Sciences. He graduated in Medicine in 1981 in Brazil, received a master's in Anatomy in 1986 and a PhD in Anatomy in 1987 from the University of São Paulo. He completed postdoctoral training in Molecular Hypertension at the Medical College of Ohio and postdoctoral training in 1993 in Developmental Biology at the Medical College of Georgia.
Dr. Baptista's work with the Clinical Sciences Review Board will complement the ongoing work of Kathryn Lovell, PhD, from Michigan State University, the managing editor of HEAL's Basic Sciences Review Board since 2003. The two review boards work with Editor Sebastian Uijtdehaage, PhD, from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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HEAL has stepped up its level of participation in the efforts of the MedBiquitous Consortium, through formal membership in the organization. Founded by Johns Hopkins Medicine and leading professional medical societies, MedBiquitous is an international group of professional medical and healthcare associations, universities, commercial, and governmental organizations dedicated to advancing healthcare education through technology standards that promote professional competence, collaboration, and better patient care. MedBiquitous is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop information technology standards for healthcare education and competence assessment.
Some HEAL staff members have participated for over a year as "invited experts" in MedBiquitous. Formal membership in the Consortium will now give HEAL the opportunity to be more centrally involved in the activities of the organization, including the Working Groups that create new standards for use in medical education. HEAL is currently part of both the Learning Objects Working Group, which is creating a new Healthcare Learning Object Metadata (Healthcare LOM) standard, and the Virtual Patients Working Group.
Link: http://www.medbiq.org/
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May 2005 — The HEAL web site continues to experience more visits and page views per month, as well as a steadily rising number of registered users. The number of pages viewed on the HEAL site per month is now over 100,000, and over 8,000 individuals have registered with HEAL. We have started a new Usage Statistics page to display the latest charts about HEAL usage. Also see HEAL At a Glance (PDF file 82K) for additional information about HEAL in a handy one-page format.
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April 2005 — The International Virtual Medical School (IVIMEDS) and the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) have announced the start of a close collaboration. The two not-for-profit organizations will make portions of their holdings available to each other using Web Services with an interoperable metadata application profile. Once these Web Services are in place, HEAL users will be able to discover resources assembled or created by IVIMEDS, such as its collection of virtual patients and shareable content objects (SCOs). Conversely, IVIMEDS users will be able to find and retrieve assets assembled by HEAL, including 20,000 images, animations, and videoclips.
Full Announcement (244 K PDF file)
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