Page History

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

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 (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

• 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