EduWG Minutes 2015-04-13

Preliminary!!!! Copy of Agenda

Will be used to capture the discussion during the call

9am Welcome

• Participants and introduction round
  • Stèphane Spahni (IHE user, university hospital, pharmacy expert, Switzerland)
  • Rene Spronk (training provider, IHE expert, Netherlands)
  • Stefan Sauermann (training provider, IHE expert, Austria)

Status: What has happened so far

See Google drive

Review of ICP drafts

• CP IHE Foundation Level [1], CP IHE Document Sharing [2]
• What are the "most important" IHE profiles?
  • See Ranking list of profiles by CAT testing frequency
  • The "Top 20" are coloured dark green
  • Ranks 21-30 are coloured light green
  • The first 30 profiles (top 20%) may be considered to be "important"
  • There are regional differences!

• Decision: There are 3 categories:
  • the profiles you must be able to discuss actors and transactions, on Vol 1 level
    • Rank 1-20 on the "global" list of 143
  • the profiles you only know a bit about, like what do they adress
    • Rank 21-30 on the "global" list
  • the profiles you can look up in IHE documents in case you need them.
    • all the rest

Methods for testing the skills

• A first list of exam questions has been collected
  • It contains "open text" questions
    • These may be published so that candidates can prepare for the exam
  • It contains single choice questions
    • These will be used for the exam
    • They will therefore remain "secret"
    • They may be published in the future, if there are so many that the sheer mass will assure a fair exam.

• Discuss!!
  • This method was sucessfully used in IHE related training in Vienna.
  • Similar methods are used by others.
  • Does this make sense?

• Decision:
  • This method is a useful way to go forward
  • the available list provides useful examples but definitely needs more work

Management Issues

• Which organisational structure is neccessary to design, implement and run the ICP scheme
• Business model

• HL7 has outsourced the actual remote testing to [3]

• the IHE board will need a recommendation on the exam charge
  • (Anecdotal evidence is in the range of 100-400 US$)
  • TODO: Find out what others charge for the exam and certification, with a size / scope similar to the ICP Foundation
  • TODO: What is the cost for providing the exam?

• The IHE board will need an estimation of how many certifications are expected?

• Agreement: Professional / expert review of the exam questions is necessary
  • this needs to be independent from those who develop the questions / take the exams
  • The test must be reviewed to be:
    • correct
    • not too easy / too hard

• Agreement: Process for verifying the test
  • have experts and non-experts take the test (IHE workgroup members, CAT monitors, )
    • provide an incentive to them
  • collect feedback from those experts

• Agreement: We need an "exam committee"
  • identifies areas for certifications (e.g. ICP Foundation and on the ICP Document Sharing)
  • finds someome to write the exam questions
    • these need some benefit (e.g being listed as "Official IHE training providers"?? Being the "exam provider"??)
  • verifies the questions as described above
  • gets approval from domain committe (if appropriate) and then the international board

• We need an exam provider
  • TODO: How do others (e.g. HL7, DICOM, HIMSS) provide exams?
  • Translations may be necessary.
    • This may be something for GDC / regional / national deployment committes to organise

Education_Workgroup

Global Deployment Coordination Committee