AAMC Southern Group on Educational Affairs Special Interest Group

Computers in Medical Education

Minutes of the group's meeting held in Augusta, GA on March 21, 1997

1. The meeting began with a round of introductions and a tour of the new SIG Web site:
   • http://www.siumed.edu/sig/index.html
2. The bulk of the meeting was spent discussing the informatics portion of the AAMC Medical School Objectives Project (MSOP). Comments are summarized as follows:
   • Consider adding an item addressing "publishing" - packaging information for use by others (including a "presence" on the Internet/Web).
   • Consider adding an item addressing "advocacy" for access(?) to information.
   • The section on Physician as Educator may be too comprehensive. "We'd be happy if our faculty understood half of this stuff..."
   • Several had concerns about the use of the term "learning styles." Apparently this is a controversial area for the education community.
   • Consider adding an item addressing copyright and intellectual property issues.
   • Consider adding an item addressing security and backup issues.
   • Consider adding an item addressing personal logs of experience/patients seen.
   • Consider adding an item addressing evaluation of instructional methods.
   • Consider adding an item addressing cost/benefit analysis of information technologies.
3. There was continued interest in developing a shared online curriculum in medical informatics which would be available to medical students, residents, and practicing physicians.
4. There was continued interest in the development of a page with links to various "public" Internet resources of interest to undergraduate medical education.
5. The meeting concluded with a discussion of the need for elections and formal officers. By show of hands the group decided to allow Dr. Rathe to continue as the de facto leader of the group for another year.