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vpSim – Virtual Patient Simulation
vpSim is an easy-to-use, virtual patient authoring system designed by the team at The Laboratory for Educational Technology. Virtual patients (VPs) are computer-based simulations of medical cases for education and assessment. The Lab recognized barriers to development of VPs including high cost, complex authoring software, difficulty creating and visualizing complex branched decision paths, and a lack of standards compliance for exchange and sharing of cases. [Read More]
Navigator LMS
The Navigator Learning Management system is a web-based application where educators use a suite of integrated online teaching and learning tools such as course management, quizzes, and blogs to enhance the four-year medical student curriculum. This website encompasses all School of Medicine courses and clerkships, as well as a number of resident and postgraduate training programs. The Lab for Educational Technology developed, implemented, maintains, and provides support for the Navigator system. [Read More]
The Zone
The Zone web portal serves as the centralized area for medical student online activity, connecting students to web-based administrative, academic and social resources related to their education. [Read More]
Learning Portfolios
Learning Portfolios are the Lab's web-based application of online storage, communication, and collaboration technologies to enhance project-based learning using electronic portfolios. Learning Portfolios are used in a variety of different ways in the medical school and are not limited to only the medical students. [Read More]
Course Director Blogs
Course Director Blogs are a communication methodology which broadcast a daily web-based journal from a relative expert in an area of interest to others. Course Directors use their blogs via Navigator Learning Management system to continuously broadcast course-related comments and information. [Read More]
Learning Log
The Learning Log is a clinical activity log that allows medical students to record their educational and clinical experiences from patient encounters by logging diagnoses and procedures performed. The system supports student-preceptor-clerkship director review/feedback of educational exposure and enables reporting for learning objectives completion and accreditation requirements. [Read More]
Lecture Recording and Podcasting
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has been podcasting lectures since the fall of 2006 for first and second year medical students. The Lab and the Office for Medical Education (OMED) initially set up two lecture rooms with Anystream’s Apreso system. In the fall of 2009, Mediasite lecture recorders from Sonic Foundry were installed in place of Apreso. [Read More]
Anesthesiology Residency Training Program
The Anesthesiology residency program is the first to use the Navigator learning management system and Mediasite streaming lecture technologies together to support their weekly lecture series. Navigator and Mediasite support their streaming video, performance tracking, and evaluation needs. The Lab developed performance tracking and evaluation enhancements to Navigator specifically for this project. In addition, the Lab provides support and training. [Read More]
CurrMIT
CurrMIT is a curriculum data repository that’s managed by AAMC. All medical schools in the United States have to enter their curriculum into CurrMIT. The Lab and the Office of Medical Education (OMEd) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine are working together to try to automate this process by exporting curriculum data from Navigator and importing it into CurrMIT. [Read More]
Palliative Care Just-in-Time Learning
This NIH, R25-supported educational research project involves the Lab as co-investigators with David Barnard, PhD, to inject palliative care teaching into the workflow of medical students during their clinical clerkships. The Lab-developed Just-in-Time (JIT) learning system integrates electronic patient logs, learning modules, and educational tracking technologies. [Read More]
Integrated Case Studies
In the Integrated Cases Studies course, medical students finishing their second year apply their knowledge to online, interactive, progressively elaborative cases. Students interact within a facilitated small group with the online cases, applying the basic science principles learned in their first two years to clinically-based cases. [Read More]
General Medicine Modules
The General Medicine Modules web site provides online interactive instruction focusing on general medicine topics for the training of general internal medicine residents. There are currently 27 modules available for users to learn from. Example topics include Hyperlipidemia, Monoarthritis, Common Skin Disorders, Hypertension. There are over 1125 user completions of the outpatient modules. The General Medicine Modules have been in use since 2006 and are still being used today. The Lab continues to provide support for this site. [Read More]
myGlobalHealth
myGlobalHealth is an on-line learning management system that provides a framework for an integrated curriculum in global health. myGlobalHealth links all seminars in global health listed on the Center for Global Health website with corresponding online content and evaluation tools. myGlobalHealth is available to all UPMC residents and University of Pittsburgh students for the core seminar series of their global health track. [Read More]
Virtual Microscopy
Virtual Microscopy has been available in the Medical School curriculum since 2009. The Lab worked with NYU using a Google maps based technology that allows tiling of very high resolution images. UPSOM uses this technology to electronically view microscopic images in a few courses, namely the Cellular and Pathologic Basis of Disease course, as well as the Reproductive and Developmental Biology course. The Lab is looking forward to having other UPSOM courses use this technology as well. [Read More]
PedsEd
Pediatrics Education (PedsEd) provides evidence-based, interactive, online courses on a range of important general pediatric topics. The Lab developed the online content management system and the module and Continuing Medical Education (CME) tracking system. The Lab continues to consult on educational technology design and utilization. The Lab provides technical enhancement, web development, custom web services, and user support for this program. [Read More]