 |
University of California, San Francisco |  |
About UCSF | |
Search UCSF | |
UCSF Medical Center |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
 Ilios: UCSF School of Medicine’s Curriculum Management Tool Overview Beginning in 1999, School of Medicine students and faculty recognized the need for dramatic curricular reform to keep pace with broad changes in the field of medicine. The School of Medicine replaced the traditional, rigid medical curriculum with a new approach based on the integration of basic, clinical, and social sciences. The success of this curricular change required an extensive and unique collaboration among teaching faculty, curriculum committees, education administration, and education technologists. To foster this success, the Office of Educational Technology (OET) recognized the need for a powerful tool that would:
 The Solution OET partnered with ISU to develop Ilios, a Web-based digital hub for curriculum planning and oversight. Ilios provides an intuitive interface and wizard-driven tools to help 150 registered users create and publish course content. This includes the management of digital learning materials that can be accessed, tracked and incorporated into any teaching session. Over 800 faculty and 560 students in scattered geographic locations now have access to learning objectives, curricular themes, and course schedules. In addition, Ilios provides an overview of the entire medical curriculum that reduces redundancy, improves course integration, and identifies curricular gaps. Ilios also provides data that can be used in accreditation, and for comparison with other medical schools and topics in medical literature. Finally, all curricular data can be exported to AAMC’s CurrMIT database.
Results Ilios has been a tremendous success at the School of Medicine. The School’s faculty and educational leaders now say that it is inconceivable for the curriculum to operate without Ilios. However, Ilios’s success goes well beyond the borders of UC San Francisco. Ilios is an award-winning, widely recognized curriculum management tool
that has garnered industry-wide attention. In response to widespread interest,
ISU has packaged Ilios for distribution, and six other medical schools
have implemented Ilios for their own needs
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
