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

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

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.

• 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.