EduCom Minutes 2026-02-17

Welcome

Welcome

• Participants: Matt Blackmon, Werner Henschelchen, Laura Bright, Aaron Goldmuntz, Mathias Forjan, Stefan Sauermann

• Matt and Laura are from the Sequoia project team, https://sequoiaproject.org/

• Meeting Link - https://meet.google.com/dsj-oasx-cpp

• 09:00am - 10:00am CT, Chicago time (16:00 - 17:00 CEST, Brussels time)

• Agenda, Minutes

• Minutes of last meeting are approved
• Agenda is approved

Status updates

• Exam status update

• There are 15 people interested to take the exam at the IHE Connectathon in Brussels.
• Is the exam too outdated / inaccurate? How far off are we? Can we remove outdated questions from the exam? Is there enough time?
• Shall we provide an exam in Brussels?

• Decision: We will not provide “renew” exams.
• Decision: We will provide the exam for “newcomers” at the Connectathon
• Option 1: We will provide the exam for “newcomers” without changes. Candidates get the option to take the renewed exam that we will provide later in the year!? They would then get the certificate?
• Decision: Option 2: We do quick fixes on the exam to take out questions that are severely outdated. A exam review team will do these changes under coordination from Werner:

• Laura and Matt are fine with ITI
• Aaron can do governance
• ToDo: Aaron will ask Mohannad Hussain to cover radiology and provide information to Werner

• Decision: We will try the quick fix. The review team will provide a report until the next meeting 12th March. We will then decide to go for Option 1 or Option 2.

• ToDo: Werner will provide exam questions for review via secure channel to the exam review team.
• ToDo: Aaron will coordinate with Sophia about the day and time of the exam at the Connectathon in Brussels. He will provide this to Werner.

Any other business

none

Next call

12th March 2026, 10am CT (Chicago), 4pm CEST (Brussels time) IHE Education Committee