2. The Ilios Vision
Provide the Health Professions a user-
friendly, flexible, and robust web application
to collect, manage, analyze and deliver
curricularinformation,whichwillcontinueto
grow and adapt to new and changing
modelsofHealthProfessionseducation.
3. What does Curriculum Management Mean?
• Manage: Create, review, revise, collect
• Accredit and attest: LCME, CIR
• Analyze: report, refine, understand,
investigate
• Experience: Interact, represent, assist delivery
4. What Can Curriculum Management Do?
• Benchmarking, teaching effortandreporting
• Facilitateevaluationprocess
• Identifygapsandunintentionalredundancy
• Buildcommunity
5. Who Uses Ilios?
• UCSF Faculty, Staff, and Students
• Dozens of health professions schools
• Four continents
• Fourteen countries
16. Attest / Accredit
The return at this level
addresses benchmarking,
reform efforts, and aids
with accreditation.
Currently, individual schools post
their curricula to the AAMC, for
processing and aggregation, either
with manual tools or their selected
vendor tool.
19. For more information
Project Website
http://iliosproject.org
UCSF Deployment
http://curriculum.ucsf.edu/
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
info@iliosproject.org
Other goals:
Facilitate curriculum development
Increase faculty collaboration
Improve integration
Identify and close knowledge gaps
Identify and eliminate redundancy
Build ownership and community among diverse faculty
Similarly, a group of ICS students at UC Irvine, under the direction of myself and the Ilios team, have crafted a visualizer which allows interactive travel up and down the curricular map, from competency to course and thru the various data categories addressed, to show relationship, percentage weight, gaps and redundancy. This visualizer uses the native Ilios API to extract data, but the API itself is structured to address the standard, and is used by Ilios to generate its conforming XML report – which in turn could feed this presentation model.
In the prototype of the UCI visualizer, the model provides the ability to rapidly identify areas of focus within a map without the need for deep domain knowledge of curriculum management.
UCSF enforces a 1:∞ relationship between competency and program requirement, and between course objective and program requirement. When an objective fulfills multiple programmatic objectives, a decision must be made on which carries the most weight/significance within the curriculum. This allows us to exponentially reduce the level of noise within the data collected. It also provides a baseline for the necessary aggregation of clerkship activities and representation of integrated curriculum blocks.
UCSF enforces a 1:∞ relationship between competency and program requirement, and between course objective and program requirement. When an objective fulfills multiple programmatic objectives, a decision must be made on which carries the most weight/significance within the curriculum. This allows us to exponentially reduce the level of noise within the data collected. It also provides a baseline for the necessary aggregation of clerkship activities and representation of integrated curriculum blocks.
Currently, individual schools post their curricula to the AAMC, for processing and aggregation, either with manual tools or their selected vendor tool.
As the landscape heads toward an environment demanding ever more communication and collaboration, the ability to coordinate, understand, analyze and improve our educational and curricular efforts to meet that demand can be aided by the standards implemented in Ilios and our technology infrastraucture, and the associated shared vocabularies.
When we talk about the future of academic medicine, we are audacious: community supported, evidence driven, cost-cutting, out-reaching, technology-supported, human oriented. So how do we support getting there?