Enabling Content Sharing in Contemporary Medical Education: A Review of Technical Standards

This paper reviews existing technical standards related to electronic medical education. It is conducted from the perspective that contemporary medical education is greatly linked with collaborative development, sharing, and re-purposing of learning material (educational content). This is the central notion of a European-wide best practice network named “mEducator”. The paper defines the mEducator educational content space and attempts to identify and describe different standards that relate to its various facets. Emphasis is also placed on the interrelationship between all these standards with regards to the mEducator space and its importance for online medical education.