With over 75+ meaningful metrics and thousands of combinations of data-sets, you will have all the data you need to analyze your medical education. We combine data from a variety of sources such as activity streams, assessments and user interaction to give you an accurate snapshot of what’s going on in each course at both a user and content level.  Some ...]]> As a one-of-a-kind, e-learning reporting tool, our Kampus Dashboard takes the guesswork out of your e-learning assessment and outcomes and allows you to see what’s happening in your courses and activities at a granular level.  The learning metrics measured are designed to increase your e-learning effectiveness, learner engagement and satisfaction, improve course impact, and optimize retention rates through the collection and analysis of learner data.

Not your average dashboard

With over 75+ meaningful metrics and thousands of combinations of data-sets, you will have all the data you need to analyze your medical education. We combine data from a variety of sources such as activity streams, assessments and user interaction to give you an accurate snapshot of what’s going on in each course at both a user and content level.  Some of the key features of the dashboard are:

Content-Based Analytics:  Optimize your content and education by showing what content is getting the most attention in an activity.  Report how learners are spending time in your activity.

Course/Activity Evaluation:  Collect objective evaluations of impact and effectiveness through course reviews/ratings

Multiple Metrics:  Measure engagement,  impact, outcomes, satisfaction, and numerous other metrics (i.e., average/total learner engagement, faculty assessment, perceived bias, likelihood to recommend, popular course content, content satisfaction rating, practice relevance).

Measurable Objectives:  Tie your learning objectives to course outcomes to determine the impact of an activity.

Performance Comparison:  Assess and compare learner progress to past performance as well as comparing them against their peers.  You can segment data by location, specialty, discipline, organization etc.

Export Data – Track, print, or export key data for more advanced analysis or manipulation. Export in multiple formats (ie, images pdf, xls, csv, json, rss and xml).

Value of Real-time Academic Analytics

As we start to see an ever growing need for accountability, reports from the Kampus Dashboard provide you real-time actionable intelligence, by helping you improve the education, learning, and outcomes in the following ways:

Predicting and Improving Learner Retention:  Identify and develop personalized interventions for your learners that are the ‘least-active’ in a course or activity.

Enhancing Recruitment and Registration:  Analyze data and develop customized recruitment and registration strategies/tactics to enhance conversion rates.

Improving Learner Engagement and Outcomes:  Identify your inactive or at-risk learners and assess which formats and interventions have the best impact on learner outcomes.

The new Medikl Partners Program allows organizations to offer added value to their new and existing accounts by offering our innovative and next-generation learning solutions to their clients and commercial supporters, which in turn will provide significant revenue opportunities as well as help them maintain a competitive advantage.   Our partners can take advantage of the many additional benefits that come with the program, including technical and marketing updates, training guides, marketing materials and more. Lastly, regular product information and early access ...]]> As a result of our incredible growth and ongoing demand for our solutions and services, we’re happy to announce the launch of our Medikl Partners Program, which enables organizations to quickly and easily increase revenues in a competitive and undifferentiated marketplace by capitalizing on Medikly’s unique social learning platform, Kampus.

The new Medikl Partners Program allows organizations to offer added value to their new and existing accounts by offering our innovative and next-generation learning solutions to their clients and commercial supporters, which in turn will provide significant revenue opportunities as well as help them maintain a competitive advantage.   Our partners can take advantage of the many additional benefits that come with the program, including technical and marketing updates, training guides, marketing materials and more. Lastly, regular product information and early access to new products, releases and updates ensure that all of our partners have a distinct sales advantage. One of the main advantages of the program is that the end client belongs to the partner and as such the partner holds all rights over the customer.

Eligibility

Becoming a member of the Medikl Partners Program is easy and there’s no cost involved.  We currently offer two types of partnership categories, a Channel Partner or a Referral Partner.

To be eligible for the Channel Partner, the partner must meet the following requirements:

• Be a medical education provider that provides educational services and/or products to appropriate customers and commercial supporters
• Have an established track record to sell applicable products
• Have trained sales representatives

The Referral Partner category is for individual consultants or organizations that introduce Kapmus to their current clients, customers or commercial supporters.

More information on the Medikl Partners Program is available here. Click here to apply for the program.

+      Pathophysiology ...]]> The preliminary results are in! We just received early results from a survey that kicks off a new educational activity, the Diabetes Action Lab Initiative (DALE) . We’re excited about this activity, which starts with the assessment survey and then continues with educational interventions that integrate what was learned from the assessment survey. “The goal of the survey was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of participating clinicians relative to guideline adherence and diabetes management of patients with varying backgrounds, socioeconomic levels, cultural backgrounds, and beliefs,” said Lenora Lorenzo, DNP, FNP, ADM-NP, CDE, of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and co-course director for DALE. “So far, we’ve heard from 48 of the 175 clinicians who enrolled in the activity and completed the survey.” The survey covered diabetes-related topics such as:

+      Pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes
+      Recognition of comorbid conditions and their impact on patient outcomes
+      Differential diagnos
+      Relevance to adherence to treatment guidelines and their impact on patient outcomes
+      Relevance of a patient-centric approach to managing diabetes
+      Cultural factors and their influence on communications and adherence

The results so far (some expected)

One of our more surprising discoveries was that although cultural factors were considered highly important, only 27% of respondents associated therapeutic alliance – a relationship that suggests patient-provider negotiation, agreement between patient and provider, and patient involvement in clinical decisions – with use of and adherence to medication regimens.

+      Almost 87% of survey participants said that patients’ cultures and traditions factor into their decisions about accepting pharmaceutical treatment and weight loss programs.
+      90% agreed that cultural beliefs and attitudes about diabetes treatment affect adherence to medication regimens and therapeutic recommendations.
+      Significantly, almost 80% of those surveyed told us that combination therapy is more beneficial to patients with T2DM than mono-therapy.
+      86% noted that complex medication regimens, propensity for weight gain associated with some regimens, cost, and lack of patient understanding about the importance of treatment were all barriers to medication adherence.
+      75% of our sample felt T2DM currently exerts a significant impact on their practice.
+      95% believe that it will have a significant impact in the next 5 years or so.

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Thoughts so far

The results of the survey been a bit telling. Though clinicians are evaluating newly diagnosed patients appropriately and awareness of treatment options is high, the following areas need much improvement (as the data shows so far).

+      Patient adherence to therapeutic recommendations and medication regimens levels.
+      Understanding the relationship between therapeutic alliance – patient involvement in clinical decisions – and adherence to therapeutic regime.
+      Use of a patient-centric approach to medical practice to ensure that focus is on patients and incorporates a collaborative, team approach to patient care3. Increased awareness of cultural competence among clinicians.
+      Cultural competence can be a key to establishing a therapeutic alliance and enhancing patient involvement in clinical decisions.

“The preliminary results of the DALE assessment survey are evidence that clinicians are doing a good job in many areas but need assistance in others. I am excited to see if these results will change as more surveys are completed,” added Joel Zonszein, MD, CDE, FACE, FACP, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine and co-director of DALE.

Stay tuned! We’ll continue to update this blog as more survey results come in. Then we’ll implement the remaining results into the DALE initiative. And DALE is still open – register and get started on this exciting CME activity today!

DALE is a diabetes management CME/CE activity that uses social learning tools to enhance the learning experience. The course is open to healthcare practitioners who help diabetic patients, such as endocrinologists, primary care physicians, diabetologists and nurse practitioners. DALE focuses on non-traditional learning methods and interactive formats, including wikis, blogs, bookmarks, audio casts, ...]]> When we wanted to launch the Medikly platform for continuing education courses, we wanted to kick off with a unique and enriching course that would have a great impact on healthcare providers.  Lucky for us, we had the perfect course that fit the bill: the Diabetes Action Lab Educational (DALE) initiative – a course we developed with the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

DALE is a diabetes management CME/CE activity that uses social learning tools to enhance the learning experience. The course is open to healthcare practitioners who help diabetic patients, such as endocrinologists, primary care physicians, diabetologists and nurse practitioners. DALE focuses on non-traditional learning methods and interactive formats, including wikis, blogs, bookmarks, audio casts, PDFs and course libraries, to make the learning experience compelling for each participant.

No Magic Answers

“There are no magic answers to helping diabetes patients, and most healthcare providers share the same concerns,” said Joel Zonszein, MD, CDE, FACE, FACP, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine who serves as DALE course director. “With the novel Kampus platform from Medikly, practitioners can share experiences in a lively and friendly environment – exchanging ideas, facilitating learning and, most importantly, improving patient care.”

The instructional design is unique for a CME/CE activity, allowing users to interact, share, ask questions and enhance their learning experiences. For example, within the course, a DALE participant openly asked about the aspirin regimen for diabetics. “Through real-time notifications and alerts, Joel and I were able to provide evidence-based responses to help this learner” said Lenora Lorenzo, DNP, FNP, ADM-NP, CDE, of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners and co-course director for DALE. “Where else can healthcare providers securely ask these types of questions in a collaborative manner? It’s a great benefit of using the Kampus platform to engage and improve individual and group learning experiences.

What to Expect

In addition, the first phase of the DALE Initiative, a survey assessing current knowledge and attitudes of DALE participants allowed learners to compare their results with other course participants, see and connect with learners who had similar clinical knowledge and attitudes regarding diabetes management, comment and provide feedback on the survey and socially share their results with both course participants and their peers from external sites and networks.  Our next blog post will provide preliminary data and conclusions from the survey…so stay tuned!!

And as the first phase draws to a close, and soon, we will be releasing Phase II, which includes new multi-media content and activities. We invite all healthcare practitioners who assist diabetes patients to enroll for the course and begin interacting with their peers. Check out the “DALE at a glance” box for more information about this CME/CE activity.

Educational Design

NCI is divided into three stages for its learners: a baseline performance assessment, a series of educational interventions and a performance re-evaluation. Additionally, learners will be able to access, share and exchange faculty- and user-generated content by utilizing discussion forums, shared note-taking, embeddable assessments, comments, blogs ...]]> We’re very excited to announce the launch of the Nephrology Care Initiative (NCI) in partnership with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  NCI is a Performance Improvement-Continuing Medical Education (PI-CME) activity designed to assess and improve the practice performance of primary care physicians, nephrologists and other healthcare providers who manage patients with secondary hyperparathyroidism (sHPT). The performance outcomes of the course are tied to improving the patient-centered care and appropriate management of sHPT patients.

Educational Design

NCI is divided into three stages for its learners: a baseline performance assessment, a series of educational interventions and a performance re-evaluation. Additionally, learners will be able to access, share and exchange faculty- and user-generated content by utilizing discussion forums, shared note-taking, embeddable assessments, comments, blogs and wikis.  It’s what we call “Nephrology Education Made Social.”

medPORTFOLIO

In addition to the social media aspects of the platform, NCI users can take advantage of the medPORTFOLIO. The medPORTFOLIO allows learners to track, measure and archive their current and future learning, providing clear evidence that learning has taken place. Now, healthcare providers can provide “hard facts” on what they learned from a CME activity!

NCI is open to all healthcare providers and is a complimentary CME activity. Using our stealth login page, it only takes a moment to register for NCI. We hope to see you there!