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November 2-5, 2012
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Our Newest Partner School
The University of Toledo College of Medicine has selected LCMS+ as its curriculum management system for medical education.
Dr. Constance Shriner, Associate Dean of the Office of Faculty Development and Curriculum Evaluation, says LCMS+ was selected for its ability to facilitate the College's complex accreditation requirements.
"What is most compelling for us about LCMS+ is the alignment of its features and functionality with our needs and demands. It was developed specifically for medical education, which gives us confidence that this system is going to meet our needs."
F or more than 50 years, the University of Toledo has been a leading academic, research and health care institution serving Northwest Ohio and Southeastern Michigan. The mission of The University of Toledo College of Medicine is to improve the human condition by providing a world-class education for the next generation of physicians and scientists. We are happy to welcome The University of Toledo College of Medicine to the family of LCMS+ schools! |
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Is your data ready for export?
Many of our client schools have questions about how to structure their existing data for import into LCMS+. To help get you started, we've authored a brief wiki article that explains what to do.
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RIP to the RFP?
Having filled out some rather "comprehensive" Requests for Proposals ourselves, we know that they are often frustrating for everyone involved - sometimes nothing more than pro forma exercises with foregone conclusions. Especially when you're choosing something as mission-critical as a new learning technology system, nothing beats just getting together and talking about what you need.
If you are part of the team responsible for drafting or reviewing your institution's LMS RFPs, you might be interested in this upcoming webinar: Why the RFP Process Doesn't Work in Today's LMS Market, scheduled for May 22 at 2:00 pm EDT.
The webinar is presented by WCET (WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies), a division of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education. WCET is meant to " accelerate the adoption of effective practices and policies, advancing excellence in technology-enhanced teaching and learning in higher education." You can learn more about WCET here.
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Making the Rounds
News in Healthcare Education
Growing Rural Physicians
Many of our client schools focus on preparing primary care physicians for underserved rural areas. A recent report on NPR talked about the demand for physicians in rural Mississippi and how the Mississippi Rural Physician Scholarship Program is trying to help fill the void.
 Women Leaders Among Us
We are proud to have two client schools with women leaders who have been selected for the prestigious Drexel ELAM® (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) fellowships, designed to develop female leaders in academic medicine.
A key component of the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership® at Drexel University College of Medicine, ELAM is the only program in the U.S. dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for positions of leadership at academic health centers.
Congratulations to Giulia Bonaminio, PhD, of the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and Dr. Kelli Matheson Bullard Dunn of the University of Louisville School of Medicine. We're proud of your accomplishments and our partnerships with you.
Stanford ditches the lecture? "Students are being taught roughly the same way they were taught when the Wright brothers were tinkering at Kitty Hawk," says Charles Prober, MD, senior associate dean for medical education at the Stan ford School of Medicine, and Chip Heath, PhD, professor of organizational behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Together they published a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine (May 3) entitled ""Lecture halls without lectures" in which they propose an alternative to the traditional lecture. The result, they concur, is that "teachers would be able to actually teach, rather than merely make speeches." Read more about it here.
More new ways of teaching at The Ohio State University The Ohio State University College of Medicine has re-designed their undergraduate medical curriculum to combine an early longitudinal immersion with a linked longitudinal curriculum in an effort to produce physicians skilled in critical and contextual thinking. You'll find the article on page 6 of the second issue of MEdSim Magazine 2012.
Helpful hint: If you're reading this on an iPad or iPhone, grab the non-Flash version of the article here. If you're on a system that can handle Flash, this one will work for you too.
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