We are delighted that Carly Glasner at the University of Calgary Department of Family Medicine took 2nd place in this Virtual Patient Challenge, hosted by AFMC.
Carly has created an interesting series cases on prenatal care, which can be found at:
http://fmsharc.cfpc.ca/openlabyrinth/mstartnode.asp?mapid=79
She created the case using the VUE concept mapping tool from Tufts, and then did much of the leg work in fully fashioning the case on the CFPC SharcFM OpenLabyrinth server. We are also very grateful to Dr Sonya Lee, Janet Tworek and Chris Diamant for their help in assembling the case.
At the Canadian Conference on Medical Education last week, the John Ruedy Award for Innovation in Medical Education ( http://www.afmc.ca/awards-john-ruedy-e.php ) was presented to the Health Services Virtual Organisation (http://hsvo.ca ) for their work on simulation integration.
The HSVO team made extensive use of OpenLabyrinth in their learning designs. While the Savoir and Argia middleware layers acted as the technical connectors, allowing bridging between many different types of simulators and simulation resources, the OpenLabyrinth engine provided excellent bridging case material in many aspects of the case designs. OLab VPs were used as case initiators, debriefing tools and for collating many of the learning activities.
HSVO team members were based in multiple locations – the award is due to all their hard work, not just the award nominees. Our thanks go out to some great colleagues.
There is some interesting work at the University of Calgary where we have been using OpenLabyrinth as the infrastructure in creating a pseudo-EMR (electronic medical record) interface.
Standard EMRs are not very useful for teaching and have many limitations. But we needed a tool to facilitate teaching for our students about key principles in EMR use. OpenLabyrinth provided a very useful framework to enable this.
At the Global Community Engaged Medical Education Muster (http://gcmem2010.flinders.edu.au/), hosted by Flinders University in the Barossa Valley, SA, there are two workshops on virtual patients.
The main platform being explored by workshop participants is OpenLabyrinth.
We welcome workshop participants – get in there and get your hands dirty.
Welcome to OpenLabyrinth, flexible power for virtual patients in medical education.
The OpenLabyrinth virtual patient platform is fully standards compliant, free open source software for authoring and playing virtual patient cases.
