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Building a Medical Education Outcomes Center: Development Study.
Mark E Rosenberg1, Jacqueline L Gauer1, Barbara Smith2
1Office of Medical Education, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
JMIR Medical Education
|November 2, 2019
Summary
A new Medical Education Outcomes Center (MEOC) integrates disparate data, enabling tracking of learner progress and linking education to clinical outcomes. This framework supports data-driven program improvement and innovation in medical schools.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Health Informatics
- Data Integration
Background:
- Medical education and clinical data reside in separate databases, hindering outcome correlation.
- Challenges include tracking learners through their careers and ensuring data quality/privacy.
- Lack of a standardized methodology complicates data utilization.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop a Medical Education Outcomes Center (MEOC) for integrating education data.
- To establish a framework for standardizing data access and processing requests.
- To bridge the gap between educational experiences and clinical practice outcomes.
Main Methods:
- Conducted an inventory of over 100 medical school data sources.
- Vetted and integrated nearly two dozen data sources into the MEOC.
- Linked University of Minnesota Medical School (UMMS) alumni data from the AMA Physician Masterfile with National Provider Identifier (NPI) registry data.
Main Results:
- Fulfilled over 160 data requests, supporting accreditation and outcomes analyses.
- Integrated data for 13,092 UMMS graduates from the AMA Physician Masterfile.
- Successfully linked 10,443 graduates with NPI numbers to explore practice demographics.
- Initiated efforts to link educational data with clinical practice data via NPI numbers.
Conclusions:
- The MEOC offers a replicable framework for medical schools.
- Facilitates effective program operation and drives innovation in medical education.
- Enables assessment of medical education program effectiveness through graduate clinical outcomes.
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