Title:
Hacking Health Education:
an open source makeover for the healthcare curriculum
Authors:
Laura Mercer, MD
Brian MacArthur, MD
Objectives:
- Explore barriers to collaboration and inclusion in medical education.
- Acknowledge the need for educators and learners to feel fulfilled in each of their endeavors.
- Show how other industries have promoted collaboration and personal fulfillment with a shift in culture and tooling.
- Suggest approaches to adapting an open source mindset to medical education.
- Create a module on a topic of interest using an online platform for sharing audio, video, files, and references.
Agenda:
Presentation and discussion of objectives 1-4 (30 min)
Interactive session covering objective 5 (45 min)
Interactive component:
Participants will convert a slide presentation into a Litsignal module complete with references, attachments, and optional audio and video that can be accessed anywhere (https://litsignal.com/participant-username/module-title).
Take home product:
A web-based Litsignal module on a topic of the participant's choice
Key words:
open-source, e-learning, podcasting
Laura Mercer, MD
Brian MacArthur, MD
An obstetric hospitalist and computer programmer with a passion for applying open source principles and processes to healthcare education and standardization of care, Dr. MacArthur sits on the Banner Health Clinical Consensus Group for Women's Health and is the software developer behind Litsignal.com.