Consortium on Medical Education and Technology (COMET)
We invite you to the annual meeting of the Consortium on Medical Education and Technology (COMET) April 11, 2008 in Burlington Vermont at the University of Vermont Medicine Education Center, in conjunction with the NEGEA annual meeting.
This
meeting provides an opportunity to discuss learning management systems,
ePortfolios, Web 2.0 and other innovations for medical education. The
format of the meeting allows for sharing your individual interests and
experiences with other like-minded professionals, including an
in-person social networking event.
To register please forward
your name, title, institution, email and phone to Kelly Goode by
replying to this email at
or contact her at
412-648-9679. There is no fee and you are not required to register for
the NEGEA meeting to attend. Feel free to contact either of us directly.
We look forward to seeing you in Vermont!
J.B. McGee (
), and Jill Jemison (
)
The Consortium on Medical Education and Technology (COMET) is a consortium of medical schools dedicated to addressing the deficiencies and challenges of the current health care and educational environment through collaborative, rather than competitive, development, implementation, maintenance and assessment of sophisticated new teaching tools, particularly rich-media virtual patients and the infrastructure necessary to optimally realize the potential of VPs.
COMET is driven by altruism, the desire to share educational advancements with others, and pragmatism, the understanding that creating and assessing new teaching modalities requires too great an investment of faculty time and financial support for individual institutions to undertake alone.
Members contribute to COMET through the creation of content, through the creation of infrastructure to allow members to work together, and through research on the educational design/implementation of new teaching tools and assessment of new teaching tools.
COMET members are committed to open source, to sharing both their development/implementation/research techniques and the actual teaching tools they develop, as long as other institutions use them for educational purposes.
COMET members are committed not to just sharing ideas but also to participating in collaborative development, implementation and research projects.
COMET is a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the AAMC's Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA). Please note that COMET remains open to interested schools from any geographic location and is not limited to schools in the Northeast.
