Medical Education Management Systems in North America

Type of Data Hosting System(s) Stakeholders at the School
Matriculation Empower AMP [1], AMCAS, TMDSAS in Texas, SIS Director of Admissions
Admissions CASPer by Acuity Insights Director of Admissions, Student Affairs
Curriculum data One45 by Acuity Insights, Elentra Cloud and Consortium, VidaNovaVLE by Fenix Alma, Oasis Director of Curriculum
Learning Events Management LMS (Blackboard, Canvas) IT
Exam or Quiz ExamSoft, Canvas, Elentra Cloud and Consortium Director of Curriculum, Exam Admin
Grades [2] LMS (Canvas by Instructure, Blackboard by Anthology, etc), Elentra Cloud and Consortium, One45 by Acuity Insights, MedHub and eValue Director of Curriculum, A&E
Student Information and Status (LOA, drop outs, grad year) SIS (Banner, PeopleSoft)
Evaluation or Assessment (competencies, EPA) Elentra Cloud and Consortium, One45 by Acuity Insights
Clinical, Procedural or Encounter Logs One45 by Acuity Insights, Elentra Cloud and Consortium, T-Res Director of Clinical Curriculum
Student Survey [3] Qualtrics, Elentra Cloud and Consortium, One45 by Acuity Insights
Duty hours New Innovations, One45 by Acuity Insights, MedHub and eValue
Learner vacation/leave data MedHub and eValue, New Innovations, One45 by Acuity Insights
Attendance records and room usage data Elentra Cloud and Consortium, MedHub and eValue, One45 by Acuity Insights
Competency Management Dossier.com
Virtual Patient information MedScape, excel tracking
Clinical reasoning training and board exam prep Osmosis.org by Elsevier, Boards&Beyond by McGraw Hill
Grant funding data SurveyMonkey etc
Other Data [4] Available Systems [5]

Continuous Quality Improvement at medical schools or allied health programs


  1. Enrollment Management in the US SOMs ↩︎

  2. pre-clinical, clinical, final SIS grades ↩︎

  3. Graduation Questionnaire (GQ), AAMC Survey, Matriculation Survey MSQ, Y2 Survey, etc. ↩︎

  4. Simulation (Instruction Method) & clinical skills information, Patient Data, EMR (bound by HIPAA); Advisor notes; Tutor & support services tracking; standardized tagging lists: custom, MedBiquitous - Instructional and Assessment Methods and Resources Types, USMLE, financial data, etc. ↩︎

  5. include Da Vinci, ilios by UCSF (non-profit), New Innovations (Residency Management), AAMC CIR and Curriculum SCOPE Survey ↩︎