Don Detmer Chairman, MedBiquitous Board of Directors President and CEO, AMIA Professor, Medical Education, University of Virginia

Bad News/Good News  ARRA of 2009  Great meeting  Web 1 – Top Down  Opportunities for change (vpSim)  Clear ways to clarify education research  Global initiatives  Economic Meltdown  Smaller meeting  Web 2 – Bottom up & sideways  Innovation resistant  Education Research review: Lot to be humble about  Global diseases &needs

MedBiq WORK now into a Successful Transition ! TALKINGDOING

From Social Networking to Global Collaboration  Multinational (eViP), partner organizations (Medscape/AOA)  People trusting to share & collaborate  Interpersonal issues must be acknowledged n group collaborations  Funding - essential for broad scale projects

Media & Uses are Rich & Adaptive  Virtual worlds  Mannequins  Live video interactions  Mobile learning  Face-to-face still matters

Lessons: Educational Technologies don’t exist in Isolation  Combining virtual patients & second life  Combining mannequins & web-based training  Emerging role of social networking applications (facebook, twitter, etc) & formal informal curricula  Federating content repositories (MedEdPORTAL & SOERCE)

The Challenge for Standards Processes “Partners needed to own the standards” See AMIA Standards Standard – Dipak Kalra, Ed Nabil Zary, paraphrase

Thank You: Valerie Smothers, & Jody Poet… & Peter Executive Committee for great program Sponsors & Supporter THANK YOU for all you do for MedBiquitous!