Modern medical and healthcare curricula represent a highly
complex mixture of different disciplines, specialties and
pedagogical approaches, the nature of which can be difficult to
communicate to key stakeholders at a local, national or
international level. To date, there is no standardized way of
describing curricula within outcome-based medical and
healthcare education, making evaluation and comparison of such
curricula challenging. The EC Erasmus+ funded MEDCIN (Medical
Curriculum Innovations, http://www.medcin-project.eu/) project
proposes an innovative methodological background to view,
evaluate and compare medical curricula, and to develop
user-friendly web-based tools to make this information
accessible to curriculum designers and teachers alike. Based
around the MedBiq uitous Curriculum Inventory standard
(ANSI/MEDBIQ CI.10.1-2013), an interactive prototype has been
developed to provide a flexible view and visualisations of
curriculum structures which can be explored at differing levels
of granularity. By integrating this tool, the project aims to
standardize the use of the OPTIMED curriculum management system
within the MEFANET network of medical faculties in the Czech
Republic and Slovakia. This demonstration will showcase the
MEDCIN prototype and its use of the Curriculum Inventory
standard, and invite feedback from participants on how such
technology can most usefully be applied in a global context.
The approach of using technical standards, compliant systems
and standardized vocabularies can provide greater clarity about
a curriculum structure. The benefits for faculty include being
able to better evaluate and measure their teaching against the
required outcomes, while students can better understand their
intended learning.