Helping patients achieve and maintain good health has always depended on the ability of doctors to make the right diagnosis and prescribe the right therapies. Today, in addition, residents entering practice must also be knowledgeable and skilled in new areas, including practice-based learning and improvement and systems-based practice. Programs must demonstrate that their newly trained physicians are competent in improving their patient care practices, knowing how to work with a team, and advocating knowledgeably to optimize care within constantly evolving health care delivery and financing systems.

Online learning provides a solution that is gaining strength across the country to help residency programs address these new ACGME requirements. The online format enables residents to learn at their own pace and time without adding to teaching loads of faculty or taking away from residents' clinical hours.

THCI's Online Learning Campus also supports residency program directors and institutional GME officials and directors in demonstrating their commitment to teaching and assessing the new competencies.

Integration of THCI's online learning system supports up to 6 instructional methods from the ACGME General Competency "picklist."
Practice-based Learning and Improvement		Systems-based Practice
	Clinical Teaching		Performance Feedback
	Performance Feedback		Institutional Core Curriculum
	Institutional Core Curriculum		Computer Modules
	Computer Modules		Clinical Experiences
	Departmental Conferences, Lectures, Discussions		Individual or Group Projects
	Individual or Group Projects		Individual or Group Projects

Online Learning Campus Features

For subscribing programs and institutions, THCI's Online Learning Campus includes the following:

	Learning modules provide instruction in areas relating to specific ACGME competencies, and take about 45 - 60 minutes per module to complete. Click here for more information.
	AppLEs —Applied Learning Exercises —are associated with each module and provide opportunities to put knowledge into practice. Faculty assign an AppLE, and residents engage in practical activities that develop new skills and competence. Each learning module is typically linked to up to three AppLEs. Evaluation criteria and competency-based assessment grids are provided with each AppLE. Click here for more information.
	Self-Assessments are multiple-choice question sets that that measure the respondent's familiarity with content drawn from THCI's Curriculum Framework and related to the ACGME competencies of Systems-based Practice and Practice-based Learning and Improvement. Click here for more information.
	My Portfolio is a personal section that lets residents track their progress on learning modules, AppLEs, and self-assessments. My Portfolio also offers registrants the opportunity to record observations and reflections on their training experiences and lessons learned, store personal notes and a CV, and communicate via e-mail alerts with faculty.
	Campus Management gives program directors, faculty, and institutional administrators the ability to assign; assess; and track, report, and analyze the educational activities of their target group(s) of learners-all online.
	Resources are online links to supplemental resources and bibliographic materials cited in the online learning modules, including articles, reports, websites, glossary terms, and other references. Click here for more information.

Click here for a demo of the Online Learning Campus for programs and institutions.

Individual practitioners have access to a limited online learning campus that includes online CME and CE-accredited learning modules, two self-assessment instruments, and an online library of bibliographic resources and references. Click here to register. For the accreditation expiration date for each learning module, click here.