Publications & Presentations
October 2008
Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Fall Conference
A Novel Method for Assessment of Resident Competency of ECG Interpretation
This poster presentation was developed in conjunction with the cardiovascular training director from Johns Hopkins University. As the project lead for the development of an online educational program to assess the competence of cardiovascular fellows in interpreting electrocardiograms (ECGs), I worked with the training director to present initial results at the annual conference for the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. The first phase of the project was to provide the fellows a set of ECGs to interpret. Each individual was graded on their interpretations. The ECGs were divided into different groupings and the individuals were provided educational materials as remediation for areas where they proved deficient. The training program directors had access to the data for their fellows as well as aggregate scores of other programs permitting them to see where their program stood in relation to their peers. The fellows were to take the exam during each of their three years of training, thereby allowing them to see their progress. The program was also available for residency programs (this is prior to fellowship programs). The presentation at the conference showed the initial year's data.
October 2009
Elliott Masie's Learning 2009
Lifelong Learning Portfolios
Early in 2009 the American College of Cardiology (ACC) began the process of implementing an online learning portfolio for the members of the association. The process included providing the ability participate in and document continuing medical education (CME) activities, track state CME licensure requirements and allow members to engage in peer social networking. Elliott Masie's Learning conference is held yearly and brings together individuals who are involved in various aspects of training. This presentation focused on our development of the learning portfolio. As it was still under development the main focus was on why the ACC was building the portfolio and to get feedback from conference attendees on how this might apply to their areas of expertise.
April 2010
MedBiquitous Annual Conference
Content Collaboration Across Multiple Systems: How the American College of Cardiology is Creating a Unified Approach Towards Lifelong Learning
At that time the American College of Cardiology was in the process of developing a Learning Portfolio. The ACC was working with CECity on this project. CECity's platform has been built to include standards for the exchange of data in healthcare education. These standards have been developed by members of MedBiquitious, a not-for-profit group focused on the development of standards used to advance healthcare education and competence assessment. Their "standards make it easy to exchange educational content and track learner activities and profiles (medbiq.org)".
Our organizations submitted a joint proposal for presentation at the 2010 MedBiquitous annual conference which was accepted. I went to the conference representing ACC along with Andrew Rabin representing CECity. The conference, held in London, was a great experience and very informative. In addition to the conference presentation, the abstract and overview of the presentation as published in the Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems journal.
Galiatsatos, L. M., Rabin, A., Rae, G. S., Raimist, D. S. (2010). Content Collaboration Across Multiple Systems: How the American College of Cardiology is Creating a Unified Approach Towards Lifelong Learning; Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems, 6(11), 98.