8th Annual Meeting 
of the
International Association of Medical Science Educators 

July 10-13, 2004
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana  U.S.A. 
 
 
Health Education Assets Library (HEAL)
Workshop

“Reviewing Medical Education Resources” 

Saturday July 10, 2004
3:30 - 5:30 pm


Increasingly, health sciences educators develop and use digital materials to create more effective and engaging learning environments for students.  Many faculty spend countless hours to create such materials, but few receive academic recognition for their efforts.

There is an emerging trend to recognize “digital scholarship”.  Several organizations, including the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), have come together to create a reliable and valid process for peer reviewing digital education materials.

Workshop Objectives
In this 90-minute workshop participants will use an interactive computer program to learn to evaluate digital medical education resources (e.g., digital images, tutorials, cases). 

After this workshop participant will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge and skills:
  1. Use guidelines for describing and evaluating teaching materials along several dimensions, with descriptive characteristics including learning goals, target student population and recommended use, and with evaluation criteria including quality, effectiveness, and ease of use.
  2. Evaluate materials of different levels of complexity ranging from image collections to “virtual patients”
  3. Understand terminology and criteria to participate in national peer review efforts
Workshop Prerequisites
This workshop does not require specialized technical skills.  Participants must have a strong interest in participating as a reviewer for HEAL or similar national peer review initiative.

Instructors
Sebastian Uijtdehaage, PhD (bas@ucla.edu)
Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Co-Director, Health Education Assets Library (http://www.healcentral.org)


More information
For more information about this workshop or about HEAL’s Peer Review process, contact HEAL’s Managing Editor, Kathy Lovell PhD, at lovell@msu.edu.