Introducing TUSK to Enhance One Health Teaching and Learning and Capacity Building.  

Susan AlbrightDirector, Technology for Learning in the Health Sciences

Mark BaileyManager User Support Services 

Separate curriculaSeparate competenciesSeparate resources

Shared curriculaShared competenciesShared resources

Now (disciplinary “silos”) Future (“One Health”)

Health education

Ecosystemhealth

Human health

Animal health

Ecosystemhealth

Human health

Animal health

Functions     

• Tools for Active Learning • Knowledge Management• Curriculum Management• Competency Based Education• Mobile Learning

Delivery of course contentSelf‐assessment and graded quizzesVirtual patientsTutorialsLearning object repositoryFlash cardsMobile access to contentDelivery of audio and video

Teaching and Learning

Enterprise EducationalSystem

• Tailored content management – shared repository

• Search, reuse, re‐purpose• Discussion across schools/disciplines• Tracking competencies and mapping curricula across course/years and basic sciences/clinical

TUSK to Build and Deliver One Health Curriculum

EmergingInfectiousDisease

Avian Flu

Case Studies

Histology image used across three schools

Online Discussions Across 

Disciplines/Schools/Continents

School wide competency Page

Oral and MaxilofacialDiagnostic ability• Assess the problem • Take adequate medical history• Perform thorough head and

neck exam…• …..

Endo Clinical CompDiagnosis• performs all diagnostic

testing….• correctly makes a pulpal and

periapical….• Makes proper treatment plan• Performs diagnosic testing…Per

1.1  Be able to record a history and conduct a physical examination to establish the nature and 

history of the chief complaint

1.0 Diagnosis, Medical Management and Treatment

Rotation5

Rotation4

Rotation1

Rotation2

Rotation3

Rotation1

Rotation5

Rotation 2

Rotation3

Rotation6

Rotation7

CODA Competencies supported: #’s 

1,2,3,5,6Linking Competencies

Rotation Level Competencies

Rotation8

Rotation4

Where/how are they assessed?Where are they taught ?

PeriodontalDiagnosis• Utilizing data collected

determine correct periodontal diagnosis

• ,,,,• ,,,,,• ,,,,,Prosthodontics

Diagnosis• Medical history noted• Recognized conditions

effecting treatment prognosis• ……

National Competencies

School-wide Competencies

Share Content Across SchoolsSelect course to export

Select content to export

Import to new system

Access in the Field via Mobile Phone

Slide Collection Individual Slide

USUniversity of ArizonaNew York Medical CollegeU. HawaiiEinstein Medical SchoolUniversity of ArizonaTufts (Medical, Dental, Vet,, Graduate Biological Sci’s)

AfricaUgandaDRCKenyaTanzaniaGhanaEthiopiaRwanda

Southeast AsiaIndiaVelloreBangalore

Thailand

Middle East:Saudi Arabia

RESPOND  (EPT)Country School – including 

at minimum SPH and Vet

Status

Uganda Makerere University In use

Democratic Republic of the Congo

University of KinshasaUniversity of Lubumbashi

French TUSKInstalled ‐ Trained

Rwanda National University of RwandaUmutara Polytechnic University

Servers being installed and training has just taken place

Ethiopia Mikelle UniversityJimma University

Not Yet installed

Nairobi University of NairobiMoi University

Installation completeTraining in progress

Internationalization of TUSK

• OpenTUSK  (the open source version of TUSK) is new  • Training  targeted to use cases and local needs• Work closely with Dean and faculty leadership to foster implementation

• Internationalization of software is an extremely complex process

RESPOND Lessons Learned

• Pursue organization of universities using TUSK for local support and development

• Continue to work closely with Tufts and other TUSK‐developing institutions for future development

• Pursue cloud‐based software as a service

Challenge for the Future

• National Library of Medicine• US Dept of Agriculture• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation • Anonymous Foundation• USAID | RESPOND• The leadership at each of the Partner Schools and Universities• OHCEA 

Acknowledgements

Thank You!

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