EduCom Minutes 2025-12-18

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Welcome

  • Participants

Aaron Goldmuntz, Sofia Franconi, Eva Sabajova, Werner Henschelchen, Stefan Sauermann

  • Agenda is approved?

Status updates

  • Exam status update
  • Werner reports: In 2025 the number of exams decreased by 50%. In 2024 100 exams took place, in 2025 around 50.
  • The exam was last revised 2 years ago.
  • If there are further questions please feel free to contact Werner Henschelchen.
  • Reports from attendants
  • Sofia took the exam two years ago.
  • Werner mentions that examinees feel that the exam is "fair". The pass rate is 80%.
  • Who takes the exam: EHR providers, consulters, sometimes institutions send larger groups of attendants. This is not very steady. Exams sometimes concentrate around Connectathons.
  • We may think strategically about groups that we want to motivate to take the course and the exam.
  • There are opportunities from many current initiatives, also in cooperation with others e.g. HL7, EU EHDS, ...

Exam and Syllabus

  • The method to develop the exam is to be updated, using Generative AI
  • Werner provided a procedure using AI, and a more agile review process
  • This method also enables to provide questions to help trainees to prepare for exams
  • Exam questions will be revied by experts. Each expert will only see less that 20% of the exam questions.
  • The process for developing exam was developed in 2019. This involved a dedicated exam developers group. (Training providers must not know the exam).
  • Aaron suggests that we ask larger groups of experts to join this effort.
  • ToDo all: Please review the exam development process. We want to decide on this in January 2026
  • The Syllabus needs updates
  • Reference to Antilope Project, FTP Site was replaced by Google drive, ...
  • We want to present an updated Syllabus in March 2026.
  • Could we present a draft version of the Syllabus in March 2026, and ask for feedback?
  • ToDo Mathias and Stefan: Prepare a "delta analysis" to summarise the elements of the syllabus that need to be updated. This shall enables us to estimate the effort for revising the syllabus.
  • We can also present a draft syllabus / example training exam in March 2026
  • How do we assure sufficient expertise to provide feedback?
  • The syllabus limits itself to the core principles of IHE. We should be able to develop this with too much external expertise.
  • The IHE Education Committee decides on the Syllabus, the processes. Werner is in charge of the exam development process. Aaron mentions that we
  • Discussion, next steps
  • The goal is to use the planned IHE Education Committee calls to prepare a presentation of the results at the European Conectathon in Brussels in March 2026.
  • Werner reports that so far not much interest was in the USA
  • Steps to further enlarge the audience, have more trainees and IHE Certified Professionals
  • Tuesday morning in the Connecthaton week Brussels 2026 may be a good slot to present the status of IHE ICP.

Any other business

none

Next call

20th January 2026, 3.30pm CET (Brussels time) IHE Education Committee

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