Norlien TIDE Project Report

This report documents a case study of a national project in Canada to develop “a suite of e-learning tools on early brain and biological development and addictions for undergraduate medical education”. The project, commissioned by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) and funded by the Norlien (now Palix) Foundation, consists of three groups of learning resources:
● An e-Textbook Primer
● 22 Virtual Patients – 9 in OpenLabyrinth, 13 in another platform
● 13 Podcasts
These materials and additional details about the project can be found here: https://www.afmc.ca/web/en/projects-resources/addiction-elearning
This project exemplifies a number of issues:
● VPs as part of a larger project
● Virtual patient cases that can be used anywhere and on any platform
● Virtual patient cases that are program and system agnostic (Canada’s healthcare system varies by province)
● Longevity
● Low maintenance
This report outlines the problems faced and the solutions developed.