2019-10-28 ELAG Face to Face Meeting (London)

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Agenda and introductions

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A warm welcome to our new ELAG Expert Advisor - @Former user (Deleted)

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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 membership

• ELAG Terms of Reference

• 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

• Opportunities for education delivery partnerships (e.g. to deliver in other languages)

• Course accreditation recommendations for region

Member reports were presented from:

• Australia (report attached below)

• Belgium

  • Students encouraged to follow SNOMED International courses

  • Belgium NRC gives on-demand training to vendors, hospitals etc

  • Once a year, they host a terminology day - main focus is SNOMED CT, but also include ICD and LOINC

  • Translated starter guide published on their web-site

  • Requests are coming to the NRC to translate education into French

• Finland

  • University of Eastern Finland plans to translate Foundation Course into Finnish

  • NRC is hosting a one-day seminar in Finland with Daniel Karlsson

  • Positive feedback on Foundation Course - a good information package on SNOMED CT

  • Priority is to increase the general knowledge and technical know-how of SNOMED CT in Finland

• India (report attached below)

• Malaysia

  • Focus is on promoting the SNOMED International education - particularly the Foundation Course

  • Interested in sharing national education materials via the Member Education page - http://snomed.org/member-education

• The Netherlands

  • NRC hosted a number of SNOMED CT introductory sessions and an introduction for developers

  • Hands on workshop with around 20 people in each

  • Internal training for information analysts

  • Interested in education for clinicians; They have developed a flyer for doctors

  • Developers have requested short YouTube clips to teach SNOMED CT

• Spain

  • Spanish students are very happy about the E-Learning courses and E-Learning platform

  • Spain would like to offer an additional service to support students doing the courses

  • First step for SNOMED CT education in Spain is seminars. These motivate students to learn more and engage in a complete course

• Sweden

  • NRC has published films in Swedish on the basics of SNOMED CT

  • Swedish regulations require Swedish subtitles for accessibility

  • New videos being developed - What's in it for me? How to use SNOMED CT?

  • Currently translating Foundation Course scripts and slides to publish as PDF with English course

  • There is a high need in Sweden to learn more about SNOMED CT via education and webinars

• Uruguay (report attached below)

• UK

  • Mental health is a priority, so would like to see examples specific to mental health in education

  • Have developed animations, presentations, technical documents, short fact sheets, jargon busters

  • Will be restarting implementation forum and adding case studies

  • Positive feedback on Authoring Level 1 Course (6 participants)

  • Implementation Course (2 participants)

  • Terminologists have a daily standup to discuss modelling issues as they arise

  • Focus areas - mental health, and pathology

  • Faculty of clinical informatics is looking at SNOMED CT and AI.

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SNOMED International update

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• Education team work plan

• Course delivery overview

• Clinician education

• Implementation course

• Authoring courses and certification

• Developer course and certification

• Education delivery partnerships

• Other activities

Note: Presentation attached below.

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Feedback and discussion

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