Support Lifelong Learning:
AAMC & NBME’s New
Electronic Portfolio Connector
Angelique Johnson
Association of American Medical
Colleges (AAMC)
Leta S. Rose
National Board of Medical Examiners
(NBME)
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Pivio Goals
What’s New?
Data Transfer
Role of Standards
Future Plans
Get Involved
Questions
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The Pivio system is designed to provide medical
students and physicians with a platform to track
and document their competency across the span
of medical school education, training and
professional practice.
System will enable storage and/or transfer of
data created throughout an academic and
professional career.
It will enable users to share data with credential
verification organizations and others at the
individual’s control.
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Motivate physicians towards continuous
improvement by:
◦ Increasing awareness of performance against goals
◦ Assist in managing learning plans for growth as a
physician
◦ Making profiling their own practice easier, including
benchmarking against available standards, to
identify needs for continued learning and
improvement
◦ Matching identified needs to available resources for
performance improvement
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Make credentialing easier and more
streamlined
Allow physicians to release customized
practice profiles for their patients
Faster access to verified data in support of
self-reported data
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Pivio is a combination of the word pivot and an
abstraction of the Latin word “via” meaning ‘way’,
or ‘path’.
The name conveys versatility and a guide in the
life-long progression of users as they journey
through their academic and professional careers.
The tagline (Manage your records. Master your
career.) is a functional description of the product
and illustrates how it can assist users with being
in control of their information and growth.
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Platform contract signed. Development of Pivio
system has begun.
Website: launched on March 7th and is
viewable at www.pivio.org
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Email address: pivio@aamc.org
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New Pivio Staff:
◦ Angelique Johnson, Director, Operations, AAMC
◦ Mary Drescher, Manager, Medical School Relationships, AAMC
◦ Leta Rose, Program Administrator, NBME
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Timeline
Development
Pilot Release
April-July 2013
Summer 2013
Full Release for Students
Features for
and Residents
Additional Audiences
Early 2014
After Launch
The Pivio system will connect with several
organizations and services relevant to medical
students, residents and physicians.
Pivio
Info from AAMC
AMCAS, NBME
Info to ERAS
(after launch)
Info from
Medical Schools
Info to create
resume/CV
Info from Case
Logs
An app that compiles data
reports for the learner
and/or other authorized
viewers
A hub connecting data
repositories that can provide
information to the Pivio
system
User keeps “achievement” and “identity” information in the Pivio system
Reports of Scores
Resume style information
User asks Pivio to send information to a CVO for the purpose of credentialing
Unofficial resume information
Official documents from Data Commons
CVO takes further steps necessary for credentialing
Verifies other information
Communicates with hospital(s), etc.
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In pilot/launch users will be able to import
information from ACGME case logs
On April 1st, AAMC/NBME hosted a Clinical
Thought Leaders discussion on case logs
Should we be considering development of a
standard for case logs?
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Accelerated a competency standard to enable easy
management of competency information across
specialties
◦ A standards research report is now available
◦ Development of the XML specification and web
service to advance lifelong learning and
continuous improvement is underway
Continuing work with MedBiquitous to assess the
ability to include the Educational Trajectory,
Professional Profile, and other standards
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Working with PESC to create a more widely used
electronic portfolio standard and include support for
this standard in future versions of the Pivio system
Centered around data flow across institutions by
creating similarities across data fields
Development of these standards will allow Pivio to
connect with other systems/tools to pre-populate
certain data more efficiently
A draft standard should be presented in May at the
PESC Data Summit
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Competency tracking
Reflection and learning plan templates
Benchmarking/Comparative tools
Learning pathways and education/program
tools
Integration with other AAMC/NBME programs
Development of additional features for
physicians and allied health professionals
What else should be on our radar?
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Medical students, residents, faculty and program
staff have participated
Topics include marketing, pricing,
features/functionality, and CV/Resume templates
Focus groups will continue to be utilized to assist
the team in future development and planning of
the Pivio system
To participate in a focus group or to recommend
someone, contact pivio@aamc.org
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Pilot scheduled for Summer 2013
Goal: to gather information about user experience,
how they use the system, functionality and perceived
benefits
Criteria to participate in the pilot includes:
◦ Thought leaders at institutions
◦ Geographically and demographically diverse
◦ Users and non-users of current ePortfolio platforms
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Interested in participating? Contact us at
pivio@aamc.org
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For questions about Pivio, to participate in
the pilot and/or user group, or for general
feedback: pivio@aamc.org
Also, visit www.pivio.org
Talk to members of the Pivio team at this
conference: Dana Bostrom, Angelique Johnson, and
Leta Rose