Applications Development and
Data Management
Educational Applications
Courseware
Courseware is software designed to present instructional content. The Technology Services team has extensive experience developing courseware for medical education. We welcome your ideas on the enhancement of teaching with technology.
Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Management
Chronic Nonmalignant Pain Management is a web-based course that teaches principles of pain management to physicians, residents and medical students. Adopted by the Virginia Board of Medicine for statewide physician education.
Digital Histology [CD-ROM]
Digital Histology CD-ROM that contains over 1,000 histological images (micrographs and illustrations) presented in a user-friendly interface with labels, detailed descriptions and self-assessment quizzes. Published internationally by Wiley-Liss.
- Project Directors: John Bigbee Ph.D. and Alice Pakurar Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology.
- Techology Contact: John Priestley
Digital Histology Virtual Slide Collection
The Digital Histology Virtual Slide Collection is a web-based collection of high-resolution digital microscopy images with pan and zoom functionality.
- Project Directors: John Bigbee Ph.D. and Alice Pakurar Ph.D., Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology.
- Technology Contact: Chris Stephens
eCurriculum Web Syllabi
Web syllabi contain course schedule, faculty directory, lecture content, search engine, PowerPoint presentations, pathology labs, glossary of key terms, interactive quizzes, charts, photos, diagrams, audio, video and links to additional web resources.
Virginia Disaster Readiness Center
Web-based interdisciplinary training program for disaster first responders.
Case Studies in Family Medicine [CD-ROM]
Interactive case-based program simulates the process of taking an effective patient history and making a differential diagnosis. Used in M3 Family Medicine clerkship. Approved by MedEdPORTAL.
- Project Director: Carolyn Peel M.D., Department of Family Medicine.
- Technology Contact: John Priestley
Testing Software
The School of Medicine uses testing software developed in-house to provide secure, efficient examination of students’ knowledge and valuable feedback on exam question validity. Technology Services staff provide consultation and support for exam administration, question entry and item analysis.
eTest
LAN-based examination suite including testing, administration and item analysis tools. Used to administer exams in selected Basic Science courses. Capable of displaying images, audio and video.
- Technology Contact: Chris Stephens
FlashQuiz
FlashQuiz [eCurriculum] is a web-based quiz software for student self-assessment using multiple-choice questions with optional feedback for each response option.
- Technology Contact: Chris Stephens
M3 Clerkship Lecture Exams
Web-based exam system to test knowledge of online lectures. Currently used for 25 core lectures in neurology.
- Technology Contact: Chris Stephens
Communication Tools
School of Medicine Technology Services supports communication tools to facilitate communication between and among students, faculty and administrators.
eCurriculum Bulletin Board
Web-based discussion board provides forums for all basic science courses and separate forums for third-year medical students on the MCV and Inova campuses. Also provides announcement forums for the Curriculum Office, student-to-student announcements and the Curriculum Innovation Resource Center (CIRC).
- Technology Contact: Chris Stephens
Medical Student Pager
The Medical Student Pager [eCurriculum] is a web-based application that allows students and faculty to send alphanumeric messages to individual third- and fourth-year medical students’ pagers.
- Technology Contact: Chris Stephens
Learning Management Systems
We develop and maintain applications to support continuing professional development and education. We are currently transitioning from an event-based system to a more comprehensive learning management system (vcuLMS).
SOM Learning Management System (vcuLMS)
vcuLMS is a Web application used for delivery and management of educational activities such as online courses and in-person events.
- Data Requests: Dr. Michelle Whitehurst-Cook: mwcook@vcu.edu
- Technical Contact: Joel Browning
Continuing Medical Education Registration System (CMEReg)
CMEReg is a windows-based application that provides the basis for the operation of the VCU School of Medicine Office of Continuing Professional Development and Evaluation Studies (CPDE).
- Data Requests: John Boothby: jrboothb@vcu.edu
- Technical Contact: Joel Browning
Online Registration Website for Continuing Medical Education (CME)
CME is a Web application that allows users to register for educational activities via a calendar of events offered by the CPDE office.
- Data requests: John Boothby: jrboothb@vcu.edu
- Technical consultation: Joel Browning
Barcode attendance scanner
Web-based system reads data from an optical barcode scanner and matches it with a pre-populated database of event attendees to track attendance.
- Technical Contact: Chris Stephens
