Methods And Systems For Providing Interactive Educational Training

• US 20090061402A1
• Filed: 08/29/2007
• Published: 03/05/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kiran Musunuru
• Original Assignee: Kiran Musunuru
• Inventors: Musunuru, Kiran
• Application Number:
  US11/847,074
• Publication Number:
  US 20090061402A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/219
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/28 for medicine
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

The present invention provides computer implemented and interactive educational platforms for training professionals, such as healthcare workers. In particular, the present invention provides learning modules for professionals for implementing an interactive curriculum that is designed to ensure thorough coverage of core and advanced competencies.

Claims

1. A system for training healthcare workers comprising a computer system comprising a processor and a database, wherein said processor is configured to:

a) receive patient information from a trainee practitioner, said patient information comprising one or more patient characteristics;

b) associate one or more educational modules stored in said database with said patient characteristic; and

c) transmit said one or more educational modules to said trainee practitioner.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a handheld portable wireless device configured to send and receive information to and from said computer system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said one or more educational modules comprise core competencies for a healthcare worker.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said database contains a plurality of educational modules associated with a patient characteristic, said plurality of educational modules differing in complexity of information contained therein.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein said processor identifies whether said trainee practitioner has previously received an education module(s) associated with a patient characteristic and wherein a more complex module is provided if a prior module(s) had previously been provided.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor supplies one or more educational modules to said trainee practitioner that is not associated with a patient characteristic that said trainee practitioner has sent to said system.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein said processor identifies whether said trainee practitioner has previously received an education module(s) associated with a patient characteristic and wherein a module is provided if that module has not previously been provided.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said processor periodically compiles a record of education modules not previously provided to said trainee practitioner and offers to provide one, some, or all of the modules.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein said processor periodically and repeatedly offers to provide said trainee practitioner with one, some, or all of the unprovided modules so that trainee practitioner is prompted to access all of a set of modules comprising a desired core curriculum by the end of a defined training period.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is configured to receive changes to the transmitted education module(s) from said trainee practitioner, either subject to or not subject to review by other trainees or educators prior to inclusion in the database, visible to all future users of the module(s).

11. The system of claim 1, wherein said processor is configured to receive changes to the transmitted education module(s) from said trainee practitioner, visible to said practitioner upon future access of the same module(s) but not visible to other users of the system.

12. The system of claim 1, further comprising a scheduling component configured to schedule training events for said trainee practitioner.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the scheduling component generates a schedule for the trainee practitioner that includes training events not previously experienced by the trainee practitioner.

14. The system of claim 12, wherein the scheduling component generates a schedule for the trainee practitioner that includes training events that provide a more advanced training event than previously experienced by the trainee practitioner.

15. A method for interactive, educational training of healthcare workers comprising:

a) providing a service provider, wherein said service provider is configured to receive and send information, and wherein said service provider comprises interactive educational learning modules for healthcare workers,

b) providing a device to a healthcare worker, wherein said healthcare worker enters patient related information into said device configured to send said patient information to a service provider and receive an educational learning module(s) related to said patient related information from said service provider,

c) sending said patient information to said service provider, and

d) furnishing to said healthcare worker patient an educational learning module(s) based on said patient information entered by said healthcare worker.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the content of said educational learning modules comprises core competencies as defined by a board of accreditation.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein said service provider identifies a medical topic associated with said patient related information and selects an educational learning module tagged as associated with said medical topic.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein said service provider identifies whether said healthcare worker has previously received an educational module associated with said medical topic.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein, if said healthcare worker has previously received an educational module associated with said medical topic, a more advanced educational module associated with said medical topic is provided to said healthcare worker.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein said service provider compiles a record of educational modules previously received by said healthcare worker and provides educational modules related to medical topics not previously received by said healthcare worker.