Medical Education Technology Enterprise

Formed in 2019, the Medical Education Technology Enterprise (METE) Committee anchors the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine’s strategic goal of promoting innovation in technology for teaching and learning in medical education. Educators, students and administrators are encouraged to submit their project proposal for funding support from the METE Committee whereupon the value proposition of the project enriches the learning experience for students.
Value proposition of projects should meet at least one of the following strategic objectives:
• Innovative Pedagogy
• Enhanced Curriculum
• Effective Learning Technology
• Scholarly Publication
• Potential for Commercialization

Eligibility for Applications:

The project team should have at least one NUS or NUH staff as the project owner
METE funding is strictly approved for the purpose of solution development work (e.g. Development of platforms, learning solution design) and it is not applicable for the employment of manpower.

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Project owner to submit application. Click here for online form.

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Mete Secretariat notifies project team for presentation to METE Committee.

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Whereupon a proposal is approved, project team to submit project Gannt chart and plan for fund disbursement.

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A METE Committee member will be assigned as an advisor to the project team.

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Pilot outcome shall be presented to the METE Committee for alignment with the strategic objectives (listed above).

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Project Owners to implement plans. (E.g. Enhanced curriculum, Scholarly Publication, Commercialization)

NUS Developed Projects: Virtual Integrated Patient (VIP)

The Virtual Integrated Patient (VIP) platform was developed to provide a limitless array of virtual patients. Medical students, early career medical graduates and general practitioners have limited access to patients due to patients’ reluctant to be used as subjects, rarity of certain diseases etc. Such limitations compromises the development of clinical reasoning skills and diagnostic skills.

VIP can randomly generate clinically realistic patients to supplement the gap in medical training and allow true conversation engagement with the virtual patient via a chatbot. VIP also plans to launch speech recognition and voice output in the platform in the future.

Find our more about the VIP programme here and you may register for a free trial here.

This project is co-funded with the Ministry of Education Tertiary Research Fund (MOE TRF) 2016.

Co-developed Projects:

The NUS-Med2Lab was developed with the purpose to cultivate a medical learning approach and curriculum for critical reasoning through an online cloud-based and case-based platform. Their model for teaching reasoning combines coursework and technology to address the need of training reasoning for doctors of the future.

Accepting and Teaching Reasoning – a “Domino Effect” Leading To Best Outcomes

This universally applicable model teaches critical reasoning by using a simulated virtual patient model. Students learned through feedback, tailored to their individual decision and reasoning pattern.

You may launch a demo module here.

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Customise evaluation to individual patient

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Get to the correct diagnosis as early as possible

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Avoid wastage or unnecessary, excessive testing

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Give correct treatment immediately without errors

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Minimize risks and costs to be patient, the healthcare system, and the nation

You may launch a demo module here.