Online Learning

Children’s National Health System’s e-Learning team offers highly customizable learning platforms to teachers, students and life-long learners. Designed to enhance knowledge and performance through engaging experiences, the platforms cover various medical education topics using innovative interactive tools including:

• Training modules
• Virtual simulations
• Live and archived lectures
• Forums and wikis
• Blogs
• Quizzes
• Podcasts
• Videoconferencing

Registered users can control instructional content, sequence, and pace. For more information on our e-learning programs and platforms, contact Kurt Sidenstick, Senior E-Learning Developer.

Below is a list of the online learning platforms offered:

Online Learning Portals

• Advancing Pediatric Educator Excellence (APEX)
  A national site for APA pediatric medical educators.
• Children’s Academy of Pediatric Educators (CAPE) Projects Portal
  For medical education research professionals.
• Hospitalist Online
  For Children's hospitalist staff and educators.
• LearnCTSICN
  For clinical researchers.
• LearnMedEd
  For all hospitals and clinicians to access validated training materials.
• LearnRD
  For international rare disease experts.
• PediatricLearner
  For medical students and clinical faculty.
• ResidentBook
  For resident physicians and clinical faculty. Subportals include:
  • Research, Education and Advocacy in Child Health (REACH) Portal for resident physician researchers,
  • Research Central centralizes all online medical education research studies.
  • Quality Improvement Portal for all healthcare professionals wanting to access quality improvement, safety, and human factors-related training.
• RNsConnect
  For nurses and nurse educators.
• StudyID
  For Infectious Disease healthcare professionals.
• UrgentEDU
  For all Children's outpatient healthcare providers, attendings, general pediatricians, and respiratory therapists.