It is no longer possible for Candidates or Course Organisers/Administrators to self-register on the mepa website.
The reason for this is partly for security and also to aid development of the long awaited user feedback – certificate of attendance generation.
If you are a paediatric anaesthetist interested in setting up a MEPA course and don’t know anyone in the MEPA community either contact the nearest centre (see list) or email me.
Thanks,
Matt
For those lucky enough to attend the IPSS conference this year there will be a MEPA update meeting lasting an hour on Wednesday 26th from 17:30.
Please meet outside the Plenary Room (IPSS business meeting venue), it will be held in a room nearby.
Newcastle
Venue: The Simulation Centre, Freeman Hospital Newcastle:
High Heaton,Newcastle upon Tyne,NE7 7DN
[Login, then return here to access the agenda, Bristol minutes and expenses claim form via the links below!]
Tobias Everett presented our research-in-progress abstract at the International Meeting for Simulation in Healthcare in New Orleans, Louisiana, this week. Pictured is Toby with Elaine Ng of Toronto SickKids, the pilot site where data collection is already well underway. We held a productive research meeting with the Canadian faculty members present on Tuesday and I will update you with progress at the annual MEPA meeting next week by teleconference.
Dylan Bould
Some of the MEPA faculty from the UK (Ralph Mackinnon, Lisa Daniels, Matt Taylor) and Canada (Toby Everett, Elaine Ng) held the first MEPA skype conference tonight (Nov 1st 2010, 10 pm UK time).
Issues discussed included the issue of copyrighting the intellectual property which makes up MEPA, the expansion of the MEPA program into North America and the importance of potential new centres signing up to the MEPA charter. Requests: More Bio-profiles for Faculty members and more site info to be added to the mepa website please. Maps of MEPA centres to be added also.
The MEPA mission statement and charter can now be found on the site.
A lot was achieved in a relatively short space of time.
INVITATION: Let’s hold these skype conferences monthly – all interested faculty members very welcome!
We had a great meeting at the IPSS in Madrid.
We’re planning to pilot a MEPA for consultants with occasional paediatric practice in London Friday December 3rd at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
If you can make it please let Alison Cloote know.
The IPSS (International Paediatric Simulation Society) is now truly up and running and should prove very useful as a collaborative resource.
Faculty members please forward to me a brief (2 – 3 sentences max) bio about yourselves that you would be happy to put on the MEPA site. It’ll help make the site more useful. Interests, Location, etc most useful and photo if you dare!
Thanks,
Matt
The protocol and appendices for the MEPA validation study are now available in the Research section in the side bar on the right of this page (requires faculty log in).
Could all sites involved contact me at dylan@mepa.stipa.org.uk regarding research ethics board applications.
Data collection has started at the SickKids pilot site.
Thanks, Dylan
Data collection for the SickKids pilot of the Evaluating Performance in MEPA Simulations study is planned to start over the next few weeks, led by Elaine Ng and Toby Everett in the Toronto center. The ethics application has been approved and we are just waiting for a few final legal documents to be signed and filed regarding the transfer of encrypted data between sites. The full protocol can be seen under the Research section in the side bar on the right of this page (requires faculty log in).
The outstanding issue that we need your help with before we start collecting data is the finalization of the criteria for the arrival of help during the scenarios. Although this is not usually standardized between centers for the MEPA course it is vital that it is for data collection in the Evaluating Performance in MEPA Simulations study to prevent bias when evaluating individual’s performances. If you have 30 minutes or so, please download the file “criteria for the arrival of help 1.4.docx” from the SickKids pilot subsection which contains more information and the draft criteria for the arrival of help.
Please email comments to me at dylan@mepa.stipa.org.uk.
The main, multi-center part of the study is still in final processes of peer-review of the protocol. You can download the latest version from the Evaluating Performance in MEPA Simulations subsection in the side bar on the right of this page (requires faculty log in). All comments are welcome and I will be contacting individual centers regarding local Research Ethics Board applications and readiness to start data collection over the coming weeks.
Dylan
The mepa.org.uk site is now live.
Register via the link under the Meta section at the bottom RHS of this page.
Important!!!
When you register, email me (admin@mepa.stipa.org.uk)!
I need your user-name, who you are, where you work and your purpose for using mepa.org.uk!
I’ll then grant you access.
Thank you,
Matt (mepa.org.uk Administrator)
Candidate feedback now works via Feedback Monkey.
Ask your candidates to register on the mepa.org.uk site before attending a MEPA course.
Important! Ask them to Email me their site user names at: admin@mepa.stipa.org.uk.
I’ll give them candidate level access to the site.
They can then leave their feedback via the link from the mepa.org.uk website.
Certificates are not generated via the site. We ask that they be provided locally.
Thanks,
Matt