Willett Timothy G, Marshall Kenneth C, Broudo Marc, Clarke Michael
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.
Med Teach. 2007 Sep;29(7):655-9. doi: 10.1080/01421590701615808.
TIME (Topics for Indexing Medical Education) is a general-purpose, intermediate-granularity taxonomy of topics that describe the content of undergraduate medical education. Within outcome-based education systems, curriculum planning focuses on the desired product rather than process, and the contributions of curricular elements to achievement of the outcomes must be made visible. In this paper, we discuss how TIME may be used as a content index in curriculum maps to link curricular elements to multiple outcome frameworks. This assists with curriculum development and evaluation, quality assurance, curriculum searching, detection of gaps and redundancies, and sharing of educational objects. TIME is available at http://www.time-item.org (username "guest"; password "guest").
《医学教育索引主题》（TIME）是一个通用的、中等粒度的主题分类法，用于描述本科医学教育的内容。在基于成果的教育体系中，课程规划关注的是期望的结果而非过程，并且必须明确课程要素对实现这些结果的贡献。在本文中，我们讨论了如何将TIME用作课程地图中的内容索引，以将课程要素与多个成果框架相联系。这有助于课程开发与评估、质量保证、课程搜索、差距与冗余的检测以及教育资源的共享。可通过http://www.time-item.org获取TIME（用户名“guest”；密码“guest”）。
