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"One of the early tasks is to identify the stakeholders of the resulting Strategic Plan; to identify individuals and groups who will be interested in and affected by the plan, to consider their roles and most appropriate ways and times to communicate with these individuals and groups. A preliminary list has been developed on the wiki; however, to effectively identify all stakeholders another important initial task is to clearly define what is meant by Distributed Medical Education. What is the scope of the plan?"

Conclusion Social and behavioural scientists involved in medical education show commonality and difference in the extent and scope of their input. While they have made great progress, there remains much to achieve.

"Under the new model, online learning is combined with the Socratic method to ensure that medical students are fully comprehending new information in a meaningful way."

"A fascinating report was posted earlier today about the Stanford School of Medicine's Arts, Humanities & Medicine Program. The article, written by Corrie Goldman, provides a closer look into the initiative and how it allows students at the medical school to explore their creativity and artistic passions through the study of art, music and literature."

The requirements developed from across 8 different institutions in the original 2005-07 project are given here with tick boxes for departments, schools and institutions to select which aspects of item banking and associated functionality they feel are key to their own current or future processes. The tool will then give match information using the results of appraisal of 12 pieces of software, including some well known software companies e.g. Speedwell and QuestionMark, and some lesser known projects and companies such as TOIA and BTL. The original project was based heavily in medical undergraduate assessment. Note, a 2009 project is due to create and release information relevant to a V2 specification. The V2 will be more generic, building on the information brought forward for V1. UKCDR is a sister project to UMAP, a national collaborative project in the UK for core, applied assessment in undergraduate medicine.

I'm sharing the UKCDR project - full disclosure - I am Project Manager of this collaborative project. It aims to make it easier for groups and schools in medical education to have conversations about assessment software requirements with commercial and other developers. Additionally, the project is engaging with commercial developers and trying to win the battle to ensure that best practice pedagogic needs come top in their software development plans.

UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Assessments. Sister project to UMAP. New activity planned for 2009.