Designing a DREAM Database and Delivering TIME Competency

Measures: Library Faculty Integration in Medical Education Assessment

Kathy Davies, MLS, Chair Education & Research Services Lindsay Blake, MLIS, AHIP, Clinical Information Librarian

Robert B. Greenblatt MD LibraryGeorgia Regents University

Beginning To DREAMDirectory and Repository of

Educational Assessment Measures• How can I find ALL the educational

measurement tools out there?• Can you help me fix this search?• I think we broke PubMed… again.

Designing The DREAM• Created an Assessment Set• Created six searches linked to ACGME

competencies• Created searches to capture resident versus

medical student assessments

Designing the DREAM

• Created critical synthesis submission package

Designed Taxonomy For Indexing

Delivering PEARLS from DREAM

DREAM Display: AAMC Hosting Database

DREAM Leads to TIME• University of Texas System

contacted DREAM director• Texas creating a new model

for medical education• Transformation In Medical

Education = TIME • Linking assessment to

Competencies/Milestones

TIME Competencies: Assessment Delivery

6.8 - Participate in responding to the health needs of the communities that they serve

(“Public Health/education”[Mesh] OR "Social Medicine/education"[Mesh])

AND ("Cross-Sectional Studies"[Mesh] OR "Educational Measurement"[Mesh] OR "Pilot Projects"[Mesh] OR "Feasibility Studies"[Mesh] OR "Intervention Studies"[Mesh] OR “assessment” OR evaluation OR test OR “360 degree feedback” OR “360 degree evaluation” OR “360 degree assessment” OR “rating scale” OR “numeric rating scale” OR portfolio learning OR “peer assessment” OR “patient assessment” OR “multiple choice question” OR “multiple choice test” OR “multiple choice exam” OR “multisource feedback” OR global assessment*)

AND (("Public Policy"[Mesh] AND "Health"[Mesh]) OR "Community Health Planning"[Mesh] OR “Health Policy"[Mesh] OR "Health Services Accessibility"[Mesh] OR "Vulnerable Populations"[Mesh] OR "Rural Population"[Mesh] OR "Medically Underserved Area"[Mesh] OR "Health Services Needs and Demand"[Mesh] OR “health policy” OR “health care access “ OR “John Henryism “ OR “population-based medicine “ OR "community based education" OR "community-based participatory action research" OR "population-based health" OR “population health” OR “community-based care” OR “community-based health care “ OR community-oriented OR “community demographics” OR “health needs assessment” OR “community health status” OR “community health services” OR "Community Health Services"[Majr:NoExp]) = 211

Designing A TIME Search: Competency Six

Delivering TIME Data • Individual cluster reports produced

Delivering TIME Data • Indexing Features For Individual Instruments• Sorted by evidence category – Number of validated studies for instrument

DREAM and TIME: Future Directions

• TIME searches are still in progress and will be finished by the end of 2013.– Program is already being implemented in

undergraduate colleges across Texas• DREAM Live Launch Scheduled October 2013– Second phase will expand searching to other

health sciences and social science databases • ERIC, PsychINFO, CINAHL, SOC Index

Implications for Librarians• Higher profile on campus• TIME has contracted with GRU• Collaboration– DREAM Planning Group

• Publication/Presentations– AAMC poster with EII faculty– DREAM article with EII faculty– Article on our experiences with Medline indexing– Grant Proposals