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Co-Chairs

AbdulMalik Shakir
City of Hope National Medical Center
Phone: USA +1 626-644-4491
Abdulmalik@ShakirConsulting.com



Education, identified as a root cause issue by the ORC, is critical to the successful acceptance of V3 around the world. HL7 depends on the effectiveness of HL7 education and learning activities throughout the world to develop an active HL7 membership. The HL7 Education Committee has focused on providing educational summits and working group meeting tutorials in the USA only. International affiliates have a variety of education initiatives from university courses, web-based training and seminars. At present there is little collaboration between the international affiliates, HL7 educators and the HL7 Education committee. During the San Antonio working group International (May 2004) meeting the current state of education was discussed with the decision to work with the education committee to address some of the international concerns and requirements. This proposal is to develop an Educators' Forum to allow all those involved in delivering HL7 education and learning services to exchange ideas and develop consensus deliverables relating to education and learning

Mission/Charter

Proposed Mission Statement of Educators Forum

As a component of the HL7 Education Work Group, the educators forum will seek to develop and nurture a community of HL7 educators to improve the quality and availability of HL7 education internationally." The forum will operate via the HL7 web-site, a dedicated list-server, conference calls and meetings at HL7 working group meetings. All HL7 educators will be encouraged to participate in the educator's forum. Meetings will be arranged to support international participation. The forum will be vendor neutral. The agenda items for the educators' forum will be determined largely by the participants, but may include:
  1. Development of educators exchange forum to support/encourage new educators and exchange best practices.
  2. Accreditation of educators ("Education Facilitators")
  3. Development of course curriculum and training formats
  4. Provide Intellectual Property practice guidance related to sharing of material
  5. Develop a process and criteria to recognize qualified educators.
  6. Develop a process for assigning/selecting recognized qualified educators to support HL7's educational offerings
  7. Evaluation of courses (standard evaluation form)
  8. Certification of students completing course work
  9. Education delivery methods (e.g. web-based-training) and forums (e.g. Universities)