This International Association of Medical Science Educators (IAMSE) webinar was led by Sascha Benjamin Cohen and Chandler Mayfield. They were instrumental in the development of Ilios as a way to enhance their curriculum management project. Approximately 5 years ago Ilios was reconceptualized and made available for all health professions education/curriculum.

NOTE TO UTHSC READERS – The slides for the session were very good. Contact Cindy Russell from your uthsc.edu email address if you’d like a link to those slides. Since we are an institutional subscriber to the IAMSE webinar series we can share this information internally to UTHSC, but not to external individuals.

Visit http://iliosproject.org to learn more about Ilios.

A good point was made about Noise vs Data – and how a tendency among many of their faculty is to try and create relationships between and among a lot of the program and course data/outcomes. It is a continuing dialectic to help faculty understand the power within the system that allows it to be clearer and more expressive.

They have found points where the conceptual map corresponds with specific variables. They then put a constraint in at that point. Within a given course they don’t put in constraints as they assume there is a multiplicity of mechanisms for any given student to traverse and gain that outcome.

There is a need for strong curriculum governance in all of this. Use the data, get in front of the faculty, get buy-in across the curriculum with how the data are used. There’s a lot of business engineering processes that need to be used/planned for outside of Ilios. Any objectives are testable – so can’t put an objective on something if it won’t be ready to be assessed. Discussions about number of objectives – for a course is 62 enough or not enough?

The Medbiquitous Consortium is working to develop technology standards for health professions education. Check out their resources and site.

Ilios does not manage assessments and outcomes. Ilios is a curriculum engine. Assessments and outcomes come FROM the curriculum and are not part of the Ilios system. Reporting is done by combining outcomes with the curricular information. Ilios drives the activities VS capturing the activities.