Medical Curriculum Innovations Kick-off project meeting Brno, November 26, 2015
Outline Introduction of partners MEDCIN objectives Project timetable Project activites & Funding
Introduction of partners Aristotle University ofthessaloniki - AUTH Masaryk University - MU Karolinska Intitutet - KI St. George s University of London - SGUL
MEDCIN objectives I To standardize medical curriculum management system (OPTIMED platform) To propose innovative methodological background to evaluate and map medical curricula To build an original model to compare medical curricula
MEDCIN objectives II To foster increased awareness of existing educational standards produced by MedBiquitous To provide an exemplar implementation for dissemination of best practice
Website of MEDCIN http://www.medcin-project.eu/ Google Docs for sharing documents
Project timetable INTELLECTUAL OUTPUTS/ACTIVITIES MULTIPLIER EVENTS TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETINGS
Intellectual outputs Based on unit contribution Calculation of the grant amount: number of staff workdays/category according to project proposal and Grant Agreement
O1 Guidelines on medical curriculum standardization How to standardize medical curriculum in accordance with the Medbiquitous specifications Overview of existing systems including the structure of the curriculum management system Ilios Preparation of state-of-the-art in health care standards used in health professions education
O1 A: Medbiquitous specifications Specification of Medbiq standards - KI Deep overview of existing MedBiquitous standard-compliant systems - MU Ilios: descriptive case study - KI How MedBiquitous standards work in practice, namely Curiculum Inventory Conceptual and entity-relationship model Pre-final guidelines - MU Internal review - SGUL
O1 B: Standards in medical education Deep overview of existing medical and health care standards used in education - AUTH OPTIMED: descriptive case study - MU Implementation of MeSH in harmonization of medical curricula Conceptual and entity-relationship model of MeSH (general, OPTIMED) Pre-final guidelines - MU Internal review - SGUL
O1: Final guidelines A detailed documentation as we proceed through the different steps of the O1 will help to easier write the papers to compile all documentation of all outputs at the end of the project
O1: Final guidelines MEDCIN guidelines preparation (01) MU Only basic facts in form of slideshows (general information, diagrams, tables) Target group: curriculum designers, faculty management, community of MedBiquitous and MEFANET Internal review AUTH, KI, SGUL Paper How to standardize medical curriculum Authors: AUTH, KI, MU, SGUL More detailed report based on broad state-of-the-art and real case studies
O1 - Role of partners AUTH Complete analysis of usable medical and healthcare standards in medical education KI Good practice receiver: know-how and experiences of medical curriculum standardization in practice (Ilios) MU Complete analysis of usable MedBiquitous standard-compliant systems Preparation and presentation of pre-final and final guidelines SGUL Internal review
O2 Standardizazion of OPTIMED Project leader: MU Development consultants: AUTH, KI, SGUL Real implementation of MedBiquitous standards into OPTIMED Preparation of best-practice methodology How to standardize medical curriculum
OPTIMED portal http://opti.med.muni.cz/en/
O3 Assessment study & Promotion endeavour Project leader: SGUL The preparation of comprehensive assessment study of: proposed guidelines best practice standardized portal extension Delivery of lectures Original papers writing
O4 Advanced methodology Project leader: MU Consultants and reviewers : AUTH, KI, SGUL Complete methodology covering a set of analytical, DM and NLP techniques for curriculum: Comparison Evaluation
O5 Analysis, evaluation, mapping and comparison of medical curricula Project leader: MU Development consultants : AUTH, KI, SGUL Web-based tools for global comparison of MedBiquitous standard-based medical curricula
O6 Module testing and assessment & Promotion endeavour Project leader: AUTH In-depth testing during pilot evaluation of curricula Delivery of lectures Original papers writing
MEDCIN Last but not least objectives To produce a set of valuable papers and conference contributions to publish the different phases of the project in detail, if possible one paper per each project activity, depending on the scientific value of each activity KI has the role of consultant in MEDCIN project and will be the responsible partner for scientifically disseminate the project outcomes, results and achievements by arranging a number of papers for the different phases along the project progress
Project management and implementation Based on unit contribution Calculation of the grant amount: - coordinator 500 EUR/month - partner 250 EUR /month Cost related to the project administration and management Supporting documents - approved final report
Transnational project meetings Based on unit contribution Calculation of the grant amount - according to the travel distance of origin and destination given by the calculator of European Union: http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmusplus/tools/distance_en.htm Travel distance 100 km - 1999 km : 575 EUR / participant Travel distance of 2000 km and more: 760 EUR / participant
Transnational project meetings Kick-off meeting: Brno, November 2015 2nd meeting: Brno, November 2016 3rd meeting: Stockholm, March/April 2017 Closure meeting: AMEE conference, 2017 Must be in Thessaloniki or Brno or Stockholm or London
Multiplier events Based on unit contribution Calculation of the grant amount international participant 200 EUR local participant 100 EUR only participants from organisations other than the beneficiaries Directly connected to the Intellectual outputs - distributed within the multiplier event
CROESUS Multiplier Event Glasgow 2015 Aurora Sesé, St George s University of London
Multiplier Event CROESUS 1. Joint Meeting with epblnet and CROESUS partners 2. Dissemination of CROESUS at AMEE 2015 Annual Conference (exhibition stand) 3. Presentation on the project at the CROESUS exhibition stand
Joint Meeting epblnet and CROESUS Partners 5 th and 6 th Sept. 2015
Dissemination CROESUS stand at AMEE 2015 Annual Conference 7 th, 8 th and 9 th Sept. 2015
Presentation on the project at the CROESUS exhibition stand 9 th Sept. 2015
Name and Surnames Email Institution Address of Institution Signature Signatures
Participants The Netherlands; 1 Portugal; 2 Argentina; 1 Chile; 2 Brazil; 3 Participants Taiwan; 1 Pakistan; 1 UK; 11 Summary: Total participants (Including SGUL and MU) 61 Participants (without SGUL and MU) 52 British participants 11 International participants 50 SGUL & MU 9 China; 1 Mexico; 3 S Africa; 1 France; 1 Sweden; 4 Georgia; 7 Kazakhstan; 5 Germany; 1 slovakia; 1 Greece; 3 Ukraine; 8 Poland; 1 Canada; 1 Czech Republic; 2
Budget Management Target: 8,000 EUR Achieved: 8,000 EUR + Budget Reached Kind of Participant Budget per participant Nr Part. Total British participants 100 EUR * Participant 11 EUR 1,100 International participants 200 EUR * Participant TOTAL Budget 50 EUR 10,000 EUR 11,100
Budget Management Actual Expenditure Expenditure 6,484.24 EUR 8,000.00 epblnet and CROESUS joint meeting logistics ** 3567.60 4401.56 Stand hire at AMEE 2015 300.00 370.13 Dissemination products 624.90 770.98 Stationary for the meeting 101.05 124.67 Organization of the meeting (staff costs) 1890.69 2332.66 Total 6484.24 8000.00 ** Including - Room Hire - Technical equipment - 3 Coffee breaks - 2 Lunches - 1 Dinner - Projector - Screen - Flip Chart
Multiplier events Local workshop I. on curriculum innovations in medical and health care disciplines Date: November 2016 Organizer: Masaryk University Place: Brno, Czech Republic Parallel event to the MEFANET annual conference To acquire knowledge about how to practically apply MedBiquitous standards into curriculum management systems
Multiplier events Local workshop I. on curriculum innovations in medical and health care disciplines Date: March/April 2017 Organizer: Karolinska Institutet Place: Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden To acquire knowledge about how apply standards and well-proven analytical, data mining and NLP methods for an effective harmonization and evaluation of medical curriculum
Multiplier events Symposium on curriculum management systems in medical education at AMEE annual conference Date: Organizer: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Place: Parallel event to the AMEE annual conference To introduce innovative curriculum management system including tool for evaluation and comparison.
Reports Interim Report Via Mobility Tool+ Reporting period: 1. 9. 2015-30. 8. 2016 Submitting to the National Agency : 30. 9. 2016 Final report Via Mobility Tool+ Submitting to he National Agency : 30. 9. 2017
Budget transfers to the coordinator First pre- financing payment corresponding to 60 % of the maximum grant amount within 30 days following the entry into force of the Agreement Second pre-financing payment corresponding to 20 % of the maximum grant amount by 31. 3. 2016 Payment of the balance is intended to reimburse at the end of the project period following approval of the final report(on receipt of the documents referred to in the final report, the NA shall pay the amount due as the balance within 60 calendar days).
Duty to keep documents: For a period of five years starting from the date of payment of the balance, unless a longer duration is required by the national law
Information sources The Programme guide http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/documents/erasmusplus-programme-guide_en.pdf The Grant Agreement Part 1 Special conditions Part 2 General conditions Annex I Description of the project Annex II Budget Annex III Financial and contractual rules
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