openEHR Education Program

Technical (archive)
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[Although this is a transversal topic to openEHR, I send it to the technical list, as it is the most active]

Hello,

Some time ago (I think it was in 2015), there was some movement towards formalizing an Education Program about openEHR. I thing Evelyn Hovenga and Pablo Pazos were involved.

There have not been news about this, so I’m curious if it is still active. If not, I think it is more important than ever, and we should retake it.

In the past I was responsible of (trying to) develop a similar program inside the EN 13606 Association, so I’m happy to share the strategies we had there, and to participate in developing an openEHR education and certification plan.

Best regards,
David

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Of growing importance. It would be great to get you involved on that. Hopefully others involved will respond here - but there are a few on holidays during summer as you know…

  • thomas
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Hi everybody,

we have an educational program is part of HiGHmed and there is consensus that openEHR needs to be taught. I'm not sure how we can contribute (we have several people working on this but nobody with in-depth openEHR knowledge) but there is definetely interest.

Best,

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As I am just getting started with the whole OpenEHR topic, I’d certainly be interested in any educational material that was being developed and would be prepared to assist where I could in its development/formation.

I am assuming though that this is material designed for people needing to get up and running with openEHR rather than it being more for capturing mindshare and growing the audience.

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Hi all,

We all recognise the importance of education in this area but it has proven difficult to find the right balance that allows an Educational program to get off the ground, in a way that supports the small number of existing providers, without over-burdening either the Foundation or those providers. Evelyn and Pablo did some important groundwork a couple of years ago but we felt that a simpler bootstrap process is required at this stage.

A small group of current education providers led by Heather Leslie, Hildi McNicoll, Pablo Pazos and with Board representation from Koray Atalag are putting the final touches on a proposal which should allow the Foundation to start endorsing Education providers, who in turn can certify their courses. The Mgt Board is looking at this proposal and although it might need some small tweaks, we think this will be the best approach. We expect to be able to share this more widely in the next few weeks once the new Mgt Board has convened.

Please note that this first tranche of work is all about the endorsement of Providers, and wholly focussed on ‘vocational training’, and not on higher education. We are keen to start to pull together shared educational material but we need to get these first steps in place.

Ian

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Hi David, yes I was involved :slight_smile:

Evelyn presented a document called Book of Knowledge, which tried to analyze/define different contexts and aspects of different roles people can play using openEHR, the skills needed for an openEHR related job, and some topics that should be part of training/education programs (“program” in terms of courses and their internal organization of topics). On that opportunity I acted as a reviewer/editor of the BoK.

I think the BoK was an excellent start for a full fledged program (“program” in terms of people organizing, validating, endorsing and certificating courses, trainers and students), but in practical terms it might be to ambitious and had a huge scope that can’t be handled by the low budget we have at the Foundation.

Some months ago people from the board started to propose a the need of a practical approach and way smaller scope, but someone has to define that. After talking a lot with Hildi, Koray, and Heather, Hildi proposed a new plan of action and presented that to the board. This time I also acted as a reviewer/editor, as well as others. Hildi is actually leading this new effort.

I think after the board approve the document presented by Hildi, that should be opened to the community for transparency and feedback. The nice thing is, maybe my biggest contribution to the doc, is that includes a plan of action for the first 12 months of the new education program (was never formally established), that includes, among other things, to have some guidelines for trainers to coordinate/standardize parts of the training they (we) give, and how the endorsement of trainers should be handled by the foundation and the related responsibilities of the education program in assessing and endorse training proposals. It would be great if in a couple of years we can have people offering training that is formally endorsed by the openEHR foundation. This of course will be also a filter for people offering openEHR training that doesn’t have any experience with it and never participated in the community, sadly there are cases.

Hope this gives a little background of the education program, what’s going on, and what are the next steps.

Best,
Pablo.

PS: I think after the program is formally established, we’ll open postulations to add more members, as we do with the SEC.

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Very good time to announce.
We will be broadcasting openEHR tutorial(in Japanese) via our youtube channel from 10:00(JST) on 27th, July 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTIV2k0OhooiuvRgPSqY-iw
If you are interested in Japanese openEHR tutorial, please watch it.

Best regards,
Shinji Kobayashi

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とても良い

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Thank you all for your answers.
I agree that at this point the important thing is to find the way to endorse trainers and, maybe, design the desired professional certification,skills and not necessarily providing specific training materials.
I’ll wait for news.

Regards,
David

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Though one idea is to provide some materials from the Education Program, I would prefer to provide guidelines for trainers, and each trainer to create his/her own materials. Since we all talk about the same topics but in a very different way.

My personal interest is to provide a formal process to endorse trainers and generate course guidelines. This way we can do some quality assurance over the courses offered by endorsed trainers. Part of the assessment for endorsement will be reviewing sample materials created by that trainer. And if that trainer agrees to share some of the materials with the community, we will also have a peer reviewed set of materials.

Of course all of this should be coordinated with the rest of the groups, and approved by the foundation board.

Best,
Pablo.