About Us
Strategic Goals
- To provide a Commons or repository that will permit all CHEC-CESC members to add their research, electronic cases or Virtual Patient, instructional tools, and to access material from other members.
- To identify new developments and current best practice, wherever possible relating this back to an evidence-based or other form of objective metrics.
- To facilitate collaboration on new research projects and to report on research that is relevant to the CHEC-CESC members.
- To coordinate all artifacts and services relevant to the CHEC-CESC membership.
- To support ongoing communication and dialogue among CHEC-CESC membership, particularly recognizing the challenges faced by practitioners in remote and distributed areas.
- To provide expertise, coordinate, and support CHEC-CESC members as they create, share and adapt informatics-based resources for healthcare education in Canada.
Mission
As an initiative of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC), the CHEC-CESC mission is:
To provide an online environment and associated commons to share educational materials, designs and practices associated with healthcare education in whatever form across the continuum and between professions in Canada.