fmCases—Virtual Case Curriculum for Students

STFM has partnered with iIntime, a non-profit institute out of the Dartmouth Medical School, to develop a computer-assisted learning curriculum in family medicine, consisting of virtual patient cases. The project, called fmCASES, is designed to teach the family medicine core clerkship curriculum in a manner that permits the program to be completed by an average medical student during an average clerkship in family medicine. These cases will help clerkship directors meet LCME’s ED-2 and ED-8 standards. iIntime has successfully designed online clinical cases for pediatrics, called CLIPPS, and is also working with internal medicine to develop online cases for IM. Pilot testing and peer review of the 29 virtual patient cases began July 1, 2009 and should be completed by the end of 2009. To learn more about the peer review and pilot testing processes, go to www.med-u.org/virtual_patient_cases/fmcases/.

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