USyd
Projects
OPMEclients include government departments, professional organisations and University departments.
Tool developed: Online profesisonal development hub
Aim: To provide a single point access to the enormous variety of evidence based educational resources available in cancer care across Australia and overseas.
Contents: Learning activities, information about all aspects of cancer care, clinical protocols, curriculum frameworks, extended case studies, sample professional development pathways.
Client: Cancer Australia
Tool developed: Database
Aim: To produce a secure online environment for the production of written examinations
Contents: Question writing formats, editing and storage, templates and tools to produce written examinations
Client: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Tool developed: Online training program
Aim: To educate selected fellows of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons on Indigenous Health issues.
Contents: 8 modules with structured questions, informative content, reference material and interactive forums.
Client: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Doctor Connect and RANZCOG
Tool developed: Online assessment tool
Aim: Designed for Paediatricians, the success of these modules has been heightened by the flexibility of online learning and the ability to bring facilitators and students together in an online moderated forum.
Contents: Three modules a year containing questions, reference material and forums
Client: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
http://www.jmo.med.usyd.edu.au/
Tool developed: Tool developed: Online training program
Aim: Provide training for Australian Junior Medical Officers in the appropriate and safe use of blood products
Contents: A series of interactive case-based activities and a structured expert facilitated forum. Program is 3 – 4 hours duration.
Client:
http://www.skincancer.med.usyd.edu.au/
Tool developed: Online training program
Aim: For various Australian and international bodies to adopt, intent on increasing doctors knowledge relating skin cancer
Contents: What features does it have? Face-to-face plus online? Case-based learning? MCQ’s? How does it achieve it’s aims?
To understand the aetiology of skin cancer, be able to identify patients at risk and formulate follow-up strategies.
- To be able to diagnose all common pigmented skin tumours and understand their management options.
- To be able to diagnose all common pre-malignant and malignant non-melanocytic skin tumours and understand their management options.
Client: Skin Cancer Association, Ulster Cancer Foundation
http://www.vqc.med.usyd.edu.au/
Tool developed: Online education program
Aim: To improve the quality and safety of service within Victorian Hospitals through the delivery of interprofessional training and education to clinical managers
Contents: The innovative delivery mode blends self-directed online learning, face-to-face workshops and small group activities that are supported online by safety and quality experts.
Client: Victorian Quality Council
http://www.catchingthedragon.org.au/
Tool developed: Online training program
Aim: Fulfill a need to train rural medical practitioners to effectively treat people in country areas with alcohol and drug related problems.
Contents: The program offers a range of basic to advanced training modules, including: What features does it have? Face-to-face plus online? Case-based learning? MCQ’s?
Client:
http://www.smokingcessation.med.usyd.edu.au/
Tool developed: Online training program
Aim: To help pharmacists and pharmacy assistants to increase their knowledge about the effects of smoking, withdrawal symptoms, quitting methods, NRT (Nicotine Replacement Therapy) and how to approach customers who may want to quit
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Client:
http://www.mmrtraining.guild.org.au/
Tool developed: Online tutorial learning experience
Aim: To provide training for pharmacists to become accredited in medication reviews. Increasing demand for medication reviews, as a paid service, makes this course almost essential.
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Client:
http://www.pac.med.usyd.edu.au/
Tool developed: Online training workshop
Aim: To provide knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to prescribe pharmacotherapies safely within the NSW regulatory framework.
Contents: A one day face-to-face or online training workshop followed by a half-day clinical placement with an approved pharmacotherapy prescriber.
Client: NSW Department of Health
http://www.dermoscopyquiz.med.usyd.edu.au/posttest856/
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Client: Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Sydney
Project: Development of an online image bank repository. Supports upload, classification, searching and publishing of image formats for teaching, presentations and research.
Client: Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney
Participants: Students of medicine and anatomy and all surgical trainees
Project: An ongoing digitisation of Wilson Museum of Human Anatomy and presentation of images in digital format, included as learning objects in University of Sydney Medical Program and Basic Surgical Training Online.
Client: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
Project: Secure database storage of viva examination papers. Allows creation, searching and sorting of question bank by multiple authors. Tracks changes and automatically compiles examination papers.