AMEE Conference 2003

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MEDINE Executive Board British Academy
Transparency Task Force (TTF) Report London,
February 9th, 2006
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Summary of Presentation

• Report on the
• Development of a medical information source on
  line
• TTF Edinburgh Meeting (February, 2006)
• TTF Future Agenda
• TTF Core Group
• TTF strategy key factors for success

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Transparency Task Force (TTF) (From Bristol
Meeting until London Meeting)

• Main Activities in the last 4 months
• Development of the WIKI on line information
  source
• Preparing the TTF Progress Report
• Planning Implementation of Edinburgh Meeting
• Dissemination of TTF information in order to
  motivate the adherence of new TTF members
• (From 2 initial TTF members up to 20 at the
  present time)

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• Part I
• Development of the WIKI on line
• Medical Education information source

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What is a wiki?

• A wiki is a type of website that allows users to
  easily add and edit content and is especially
  suited for collaborative writing.
• (Source Wikipedia)

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Nature says Wikipedia is fairly accurate

• A side-to-side comparison of articles in
  Wikipedia and Encyclopaedia Britannica revealed a
  similar degree of accuracy on a range of
  scientific topics.
• In 42 articles, 8 serious errors were identified
  4 came from each source.

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• Part II
• Transparency Task Force Workshop
• at the
• MEDINE Edinburgh Meeting

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TTF Edinburgh Objectives

• to demonstrate the Online Resource (OR) to the
  Task Force and to receive feedback and hopefully
  support from the Task Force for its further
  development
• to request suggestions for and to discuss any
  other areas in which the Task Force should
  engage
• to confirm membership of the Core Group and of
  the full Transparency Task Force.
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TTC Edinburgh Agenda

• Core Group 2 meetings
• - Thursday - 5 to 7 pm
• - Friday - 4 to 6 pm
• TTF Workshop (3 hour workshop)
• - Large Group Wiki Demonstration / TTF
  Objectives
• - Group Work - Proposals (3 groups with
  rapporteur)
• - Large group - General discussion
  reaching consensus

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WIKI Entries

• Entries include
• Educational concepts and terms, eg, problem based
  learning, assessment, evaluation
• Individuals, organisations and medical schools,
  eg, University of Edinburgh, WHO, AMSE, AMEE
• Reports and publications, eg, Tomorrows Doctors,
  Swiss Catalogue of Learning Objectives for
  Undergraduate Medical Training...

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Edinburgh TTF participants

• Andrzej Wojtczak
  
  Core Group-Poland
• Filipa Fareleira
  
  Portugal-Lisbon University
• Hans Jacob Westbye
  Core Group- EMSI Students
  representative
• Ilze Akota
  
  Latvia-Riga Stradins University
• Jadwiga Mirecka
  Core
  Group-Poland-Jagiellonian University
• Jordi Pales
  Core
  Group-Spain-Barcelona University
• Jorge Garcia Seoane
  
  Spain-Madrid University
• Jorgen Hedemark Poulsen
  
  Denmark-PUCS
• Lidia Przepiora-deiewulska
  
  Poland-Warsaw University
• Madalena Patrício
  Coordinator-Portugal
  -Lisbon University
• Maria Rosa Fenoll Brunett
  
  Spain-Rovira L Virgili University
• Miguel Julião
  
  Portugal-Lisbon University
• Nebojsa Nikolic
  
  Croatia-IMHA
• Olcay Tiryaki Aydintug
  
  Turkey-Ankara University
• Pat Lilley
  
  Core Group-AMEE Administrator
• Paul de Roos
  Netherlands-VUMC/European Medical St
  Association
• Robert Snipes
  
  Germany-Giessen University
• Ron Harden
  Core
  Group-AMEE General Secretary
• Vincenzo Costigliola
  Core
  group-EMA representative

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• Part III
• TTF future Agenda

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TTF Immediate Agenda

• Develop OR according to Edinburgh feedback
• Preparation of the TTF Annual Meeting (May 2006)
• Core Groupmembers investigating the existence
  of
• - Other Glossaries
• - Medical Schools
• - Medical Institutions, Associations etc
• - Other relevant information for the Wiki

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TTF Mid Term Agenda

• Develop and implement wiki OR pilot phase
• TTF and Tuning members invited to contribute to
  the wiki OR during the pilot phase
• TTF members will work on suggestions for the
  Annual Meeting
• Activate networking inside the TTF members

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• Part IV
• Transparency Task Force Who

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TTF - WHO

• Core Group
• Madalena Patrício Lisbon University
  (Coordinator)
• Vincenzo Costigliola EMA
• Ron Harden - AMEE General Secretary
• Pat Lilley - AMEE Administrator
• Jadwiga Mirecka - Jagiellonian University
• Jordi Pales - Barcelona University
• Hans Jacob Westbye - Students representative
• Andrzej Wojtczak
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TTF - WHO

• Members of the task force will include
• Edinburgh meeting participants who expressed
  their interest to become members
• Others who expressed their intention to join us
  but couldnt attend the meeting
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• Part V
• TTF Strategy Key Factors

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TTF WIKI Strategy

• Definition of concrete goals for the WIKI OR
• Definition of achievable WIKI Agenda
• Clear definition of responsible people for WIKI
  OR tasks
• Focus on process people motivation for
  networking
• Focus on product clear transparent simple
  accessible
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Simple, Clear accessible information
Editorial Control
Achievable Agenda

TTF WIKI Strategy
Focus on WIKI Product
Focus on WIKI Process