St Emlyn's
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| St Emlyn's | |
| St Emlyn's virtual hospital | |
|---|---|
| Geography | |
| Location | [The World Wide Web],, Manchester, England, United Kingdom |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Education |
| Hospital type | Emergency Medicine |
| Affiliated university | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Adult and Paediatric services on site |
| Beds | infinite |
| History | |
| Founded | 2003 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.stemlyns.org.uk |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
St Emlyn’s is a virtual hospital developed by educationalists at Manchester Royal Infirmary, England. Development was driven by the need to provide educational materials to a work force (emergency department doctors) on a 24-hour basis. It was ‘‘built’’ (with a grant from the NHS Modernisation Agency ) on the World Wide Web as a training resource for specialist training in Emergency Medicine in the North Western (Manchester) Deanery in 2003. St Emlyn’s currently has over 600 patients although not all of these are open to public access.
Initially St Emlyn’s (www.stemlyns.org.uk) was a repository for Problem-based learning (PBL) cases used in postgraduate teaching in the North West of England. PBL was instituted in the late 90s in order to encourage trainees to adopt a social constructionism approach to learning around weekly case discussions. This is a unique approach to postgraduate emergency medical education.
Large parts of the St Emlyn's site are open access. No fees are charged for access to the training materials and users are encouraged to use the materials for in their own teaching/learning practice.
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[edit] Virtual learning environment
Initially the site grew through the acquisition of increasing numbers of clinical cases. In 2006 the site was further developed to incorporate a virtual learning environment based on th open source course management system Moodle. The VLE has allowed the original assorted cases to be themed into areas that reflect the College of Emergency Medicine curriculum. This is a unique approach to the delivery of a postgraduate medical education curriculum.
Further courses have been developed for trainees across all grades in emergency medicine. In addition StEmlyns acts as a hub for a number of evidence based journal clubs.
[edit] Case types
Cases are divided into the following types.
- Straightforward clinical cases comprising a clinical narrative, supported by images, results of investigations, correspondence and (in a few cases) sound files. These are used either as PBL cases or as cases to generate case-based discussions.
- Evidence based cases comprising a case short narrative leading to a the evidence based repository at www.bestbets.org. The waiting room of St Emlyn’s Emergency Department is full of cases with a short history ending in a question — the answer of which (obviously!) lies in the linked BestBET.
- Cases of the Week (or COWs) — cases based upon the daily Board Rounds at Manchester Royal Infirmary that have a significant educational message
[edit] Organisation of cases in StEmlyns
The six core clinical modules are
- AcuteMedicine 1,
- Trauma,
- Paediatrics,
- Surgery,
- Acute Medicine 2
- Psychosocial
The three management modules are
- Emergency Medicine and the Law
- HR Management in the Emergency Department
- Managing the Emergency Department
[edit] Publications relating to StEmlyn's
The design and evolution of StEmlyn's has been described in the medical literature.
Developing a virtual learning course in emergency medicine for F2 doctors
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
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