C12476: Learner-Centered Milestone Achievement (LCMA) SystemNovelty:
An electronic education tool for continuous improvement of medical education interactions through the monitoring and reporting of milestone-performance outcomes.
Value Proposition:
The readiness of surgical residency graduates is not always guaranteed in todays healthcare systems. As the complexity in the healthcare system grows, more effective and efficient strategies are demanded to develop competent professionals. The LCMA system applies adult learning strategies to maximize individual achievement of milestone outcomes in order to offer best-practices in the training of resident competences. This electronic tool provides clinician-educators a systematic mobile platform that allows for the development of creative and flexible educational environment with functions to promote sustainable, efficient, and measurable progress in competence training. Additional advantages of the LCMA system include:
• Tracks cumulative training and skill acquisition of trainee which is used to advance individual progress and can be used to support training program accreditation needs
• Increases cost-effectiveness of surgical training and provides opportunity to establish best practices for efficient learning and resource utilization
• Provides real-time measures of teacher performance and learner outcomes for continuous program improvement including faculty development
Technical Details:
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed an electronic education tool that streamlines the process of competence training without the cost of additional time. The LCMA system uses serial assessment to design and update individualized learning plans and to guide program improvement. The system can track the cumulative achievement of learner competence along an established milestone continuum. The system allows for surgical trainees to work through skills to reach milestones at their own pace while providing a uniform framework for all trainees. Additionally, structured assessment and reflection is included in the framework to guide surgical training improvement and, individualized training plans can be updated based on the assessments.
Looking for Partners:
To develop & commercialize the technology as a surgical education platform.
Stage of Development:
Educational framework conceptualized
Data Availability:
Under CDA/NDA
