2019-04-10 ELAG Face to Face Meeting (London)

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Welcome and introductions

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A warm welcome to our new Education & Product Support team member.

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Goals of meeting

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ELAG administration

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Topics include:

• Declaration of Interests (please also refer to Conflicts of Interest section in the Advisory Groups Manual)

• ELAG Terms of Reference

• ELAG membership

• ELAG 2019 work plan

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Reports from ELAG Member representatives

Member Representatives

Each ELAG Member representative will be invited to provide a short report on the following topics for their country:

• New or planned SNOMED CT education activities

• Feedback on existing SNOMED CT eLearning experiences

• Country or region-specific SNOMED CT priorities

• Education collaboration opportunities (e.g. translation or localisation)

• CME/CPD course accreditation recommendations for region

Reports delivered from:

• Australia

  • See attached update

• Belgium

  • Part of communications plan will be education. Still in the planning stage but see it as important

• Canada

  • Arrange webinars on topics related to terminology and health informatics (8 webinars last year) - e.g.

    • LOINC and national coding systems (including SNOMED CT)

    • Introduction to Canadian drug terminology

    • Nursing terminology

    • Enabling better patient care through standardised medical content

    • Introduction to FHIR

  • Updated old training material for clinicians

  • Hands on activities using tooling

  • Willing to collaborate on translating courses to French if others are interested

• Denmark

  • No education provided locally. People are directed to the international material

• Estonia

  • See attached update

• Finland

  • An event held with Charles Gutteridge, Ian Green and Lotti Barlow (Sweden) with 400 people attending

  • University of Eastern Finland is active and interested in translating education into Finnish

• India

  • See attached update

• Ireland

  • Not much local education activity

  • First Irish release due this year via Managed Service, so authoring level 1 course is important as part of training

• Malaysia

  • Good participation in international E-Learning courses

  • Activities in academia

  • Capacity-building is being prioritised within NRC

• Sweden

  • Have developed a number of videos in Swedish

  • Foundation course - some people have found language to be a barrier

  • Suggested adding subtitles to presentations to address language barrier (Note: English subtitles will be added. Other languages can be considered)

  • Interest in using SNOMED for cancer reporting, so have targeted education activities in that direction

  • Have developed a guide with tips on how to use the SNOMED CT browser

  • Scandinavian conference (Vitalis) coming up

• Switzerland

  • Planning to arrange a SNOMED day to increase awareness in Switzerland

• U.K.

  • Providing animations, recordings, links to international resources and fact sheets

  • Main new areas are mental health and data analysis

  • Specialty-specific education materials

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SNOMED International update

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• EPS team and workplan - please refer to attached slides

• Courses and learning pathways

  • Foundation courses

  • Implementation course

  • Authoring level 1 course

  • Authoring level 1 certification

  • Authoring level 2 course

  • SNOMED for developers

  • SNOMED for data analysts

  • SNOMED for clinicians - please refer to attached slides on Clinical Education

• Other education activities

  • CME/CPD environment scan

  • Translation partnerships

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Feedback and discussion

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