fmCASES Now Available for Pilot Testing

The fmCASES are here and ready for ‘no fee’ pilot testing!

Family Medicine educators are realizing a dream with fmCASES, a set of online cases to teach the core curriculum of the family medicine clerkship. iInTIME released 8 of 29 cases for pilot testing through the MedU website on July 1, 2009.  This number continues to grow as case development is finalized. fmCASES are available free of charge to all CLIPP, SIMPLE and WISE-MD subscribers and upon request by non-subscribers subscribers involved in medical education. The cases will remain available for use, without a fee, until subscriptions begin in July of 2010. During the pilot phase, an on-line evaluation form is provided at the conclusion of each case. Simultaneous to the pilot testing process is an extensive peer review of each of the cases, involving both medical content and pedagogical experts from the field.  During this time, the cases will continue to be refined.

fmCASES will build clinical competency, fill educational gaps, and model the core values of family medicine. The cases will also help clerkship directors meet LCME’s ED-2 and ED-8 standards. Using the FMCR (Family Medicine Curriculum Resource), NBME Task Force curriculum topics, and the Future of Family Medicine as resources, these cases were carefully designed to cover common topics for the Family Medicine Clerkship. fmCASES fosters self-directed and independent study, emphasizes and models clinical problem-solving, and teaches an evidence-based and generalist approach to patient care.  Each case is designed to draw the learner into the encounter, through dialog, questions, and answers. Diagnostic networks stimulate clinical reasoning and critical thinking.

fmCASES is designed for use by third-year medical students and can also be an excellent learning tool for many other health care professionals. If you are interested in accessing the cases or serving as a peer reviewer and have not yet contacted us, please do so by clicking here: www.med-u.org/support/ask_medu_support

To learn more about fmCASES and other iInTIME projects including information on individual cases or their extensive development through strategic partnerships, please visit their new home at www.med-u.org. For more information about the iInTIME organization and its unique approach to delivering effective medical education through computer assisted learning applications, please visit www.i-intime.org.

MedU Pilots Multi-Disciplinary Cases

Virtual patient cases teaching cultural sensitivity and provider-patient partnership building ready for no-fee pilot testing!

eCLIPPs, a set of online cases to teach cultural sensitivity as well as provider-patient and provider-family partnership building techniques was released for pilot testing on July 1, 2009.  Initially, 3 cases were offered, but this number continues to grow as case development is finalized. eCLIPPs cases are available free of charge to all CLIPP, SIMPLE and WISE-MD subscribers and upon request by non-subscribers involved in medical education. During the pilot phase, an on-line evaluation form is provided at the conclusion of each case. Simultaneous to the pilot testing process is an extensive peer review of each of the cases, involving both medical content and pedagogical experts from the field.  During this time, the cases will continue to be refined.

Through interactive and printable tools, eCLIPPs cases brings ‘culture in health’, ‘family centered partnership’, and ‘navigating the healthcare system’ concepts to the clinical bedside. eCLIPPs’ virtual cases promote cultural understanding, offer communications practice, and encourage self-reflection around students’ own biases and barriers to optimal ‘bedside’ performance.

eCLIPPs originally designed for CLIPP’s pediatric medical student users, has expanded its focus to MedU's virtual patient cases in family (fmCASES) and internal (SIMPLE). eCLIPPs offers interactive and experiential education in providing accessible, continuous, comprehensive, family centered, coordinated, compassionate and culturally effective primary care across disciplines.

To learn more about eCLIPPs and other MedU virtual patient cases and modules including information on individual cases or their extensive development through strategic partnerships, please visit www.med-u.org. For more information about the iInTIME organization and its unique approach to delivering effective medical education through computer assisted learning applications, please visit www.i-intime.org.