The Learning Resource Server Medicine (LRSMed) is a free-to-access catalog of electronic learning and teaching software modules for education in medicine and dentistry available in English and German.
History
The LRSMed was developed at the Institut für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (IMIBE) of the
University Duisburg-Essen
The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
, within the joint research project "Vision 2003", funded by the
German Ministry for Education and Research.
Content
The LRSMed included electronic learning and teaching software modules for education in medicine and dentistry, which were deployed on the World Wide Web free of charge. The learning resources were described with a quasi-standard of
metadata
Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including:
* Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
, the IMS Learning Resource Meta-data Information Model. Users could search for entries using several parameters as the medical field, type of learning resource and language.
Status
The LRSMed was maintained at the Institut für Medizinische Informationsverarbeitung, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (IBE) of the
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
, Germany (September 2013). , 1705 learning resources were registered. The LRSMed was evaluated or used in several independent studies.
[
Waldmann UM, Vollmar HC, Stracke S, Fassnacht U, Gensichen J, Sönnichsen A, Öchsner W. Review of patient simulation software - background, options and integration
in Medical Education. Z Allg Med 2006; 82: 536-42.] The LRSMed was deactivated in summer 2023.
References
External links
* {{official website, http://www.lrsmed.com/
Medical education