EHA’s Education & Outreach Program 2019-2021

Gert Ossenkoppele | Chair Education CommitteeGianluca Gaidano | Chair Global Outreach Unit

Where do we come from?

- Education remains one of the strongholds of EHA’s activities.

- In the past five years:

- consolidated major achievements and continued to strive for lifelong learning in hematology

- by offering peer-reviewed, high quality and unbiased educational tools in various formats

- suitable for different target groups

- with the European Hematology Curriculum as the backbone of this program.

Education | strategic goal 2014-2018

Education: what the Board said (Retreat April 2018) M

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r achie

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ents Expansion ELC & focus blended

learning

Updated Curriculum

Introduction Hematology Exam

Expansion & new strategy outreach program

Strong congress program

Mentoring & Education Award

Launch Topics-in-Focus programs

Guidelines project

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f att

enti

on Many competitors on the

market. Excellence and exclusivity are key.

Keeping up with IT developments, limited possibilities to develop material & manpower

Lack of position in ‘guidelines’ world

➢ September 2018: first discussion on translating EHA’s overall strategy into a strategy on education including developing tactics and tools -> presented at the October 2018 Board meeting.

➢ October – December 2018: continues discussions & development of plans

➢ January 2019: second discussion on especially tools (programs) that serve EHA’s strategy.

This Board Meeting > presentation plans

Education Committee

Plan Education Committee: foundations

‒ Evaluations learning tools & programs

‒ Statistics EHA Learning Center

‒ Expertise Education Committee & sub Committees

‒ Outcome EHA Membership survey (see next 2 slides)

‒ Directions from the EHA Board

‒ Needs assessment & discussions outreach partners

‒ Being part of EHA community is very important for all members.

• Members mainly involved in research more likely become members for discountson the annual congress fees.

• Members involved in clinical practice are mainly motivated for access in EHALearning Center.

‒ Members see EHA’s main purpose as providing education, followed by theorganization of congresses and meetings

Member survey results on Education

1. To be a part of the EHA community 946 5. Eligibility for EHA’s Research Grants Program230

2. Unlimited access to the EHA Learning Center 822 6. To receive monthly EHA News (online)213

3. Discount on the fee for the annual congress 487 7. Eligibility for the EHA congress travel grants195

4. Discount on the fee for EHA educational/scientific meetings

3018. Eligibility for EHA’s Mentoring Programs

(CRTH, TRTH)

166

Member survey results on Education

‒ EHA is particularly appreciated for its congress, meetings, educational &networking opportunities;

‒ Top reasons to become an EHA member

EHA’s vision on Learning

EHA should be the home base of continuous medical education for a broad audience of hematology professionals. EHA’s medical education program should be engaging and motivate the learners to become part of the EHA Community. EHA’s medical education program should be open to less resourced countries by offering education based on their needs.

Education | Tactics

We will reach this by:

- Having an excellent online learning program as the basis for all EHA Education:

- offering high quality content on a wide variety of topics, with a comprehensive program as a basis

- matching different learning styles (online, offline, combination (blended))

- Serving clinicians and researchers

- Offering an interesting program of in-depth meetings (through SGWs)

- Strive for harmonization in hematology education by:

- Updating & promoting the EHA Hematology Curriculum

- Organizing & promoting a European Hematology Exam

- Serving different target groups and less resourced countries (outreach)

- Strong and continuous promotion

From Tactics to Tools...

Part 1. EHA Campus

Launch

Launch phase 1 Launch phase 2

January 31 2019

• 3 months free trial

• Free account

creation

• No certificates

available

April

• Single sign on active

• Member only

• Certificates

available

Online content

1st release with:

- 6 E-courses

- 6 clinical cases

- Master Class and Bite-size

Master Class

- Statistics for Clinical

Researchers course

- Morphology on-call

- Clinical Cases Uncovered 1st

case

- Sponsored materials

In the pipeline:

- More E-courses (eg. APL,

Pediatric hematology, Bone

marrow failure)

- More clinical cases

- Research campus

- Morphology

- Clinical Cases Uncovered more

cases

- Transfusion working group

- Topics-in-Focus programs

ChallengesChallenge #1

To guarantee a continuous supply of content

Challenge #2

To efficiently and continuously create high quality online learning

materials based on a solid content management plan

Challenge #3

To attract also researchers to the EHA Campus

Challenge #1To guarantee a continuous supply of content; approach

‒ All meetings EHA organizes will be recorded. Content to be used

for creation of online learning tools.

‒ Third party content: actively approach supporters and relevant

medical specialty organizations to share content (already

collaboration with transfusionists and morphologists)

‒ Content creation

Challenge #2Content management plan:

- 20 priority topics, already defined by Education Committee

- Start with basic level knowledge

- Expand learning formats (webinars, games, etc)

- Utilize experts mainly for providing outlines/directions and

reviewing and testing

- Work with professional companies for technical support and

medical writing (e.g. course questions). Companies already

identified.

Challenge #220 priority topics, defined by Education Committee on January 10.

Estimated investment:

Content development

€ 50.000,- per topic x 20 topics = € 1.000.000,-

‒ Iron deficiency / Iron

metabolism / Hemochromatosis

/Secondary iron overload

‒ Hereditary hemolytic anemias

(non-immune)

‒ Macroangiopathic anemia,

TTP/HUS

‒ Autoimmune hemolytic anemia

‒ Follicular lymphoma

‒ Miscellaneous low grade

lymphomas (mantle cell, SLVL etc)

‒ Immunophenotyping (technique

and applications)

‒ Diagnostic work up of Acute

leukemias

‒ Cytogenetics and molecular

diagnostics (The techniques and

their applications)

‒ Diagnostic work up of

lymphoproliferative disorders

‒ Consultative hematology

(pregnancy, surgery etc.)

‒ Geriatric hematology

‒ Autoimmune cytopenia

‒ Difficult hemorrhagic disorders

‒ Infections in haematological

disorders

‒ Bleeding disorders: acquired

and inherited

‒ Cellular therapies(other than

CARt)

‒ CARt

‒ Haemoglobinopathies

‒ Antibody treatment of HM

‒ MRD (techniques and

applications)

Challenge #3to attract also researchers to the ….

EHA Research Campus

EHA Research Campus TASKFORCE

Maria Ester Bernardo (lead Research)

Julio Delgado (lead Education)

2 CRTH alumni Ruud Delwel

2 TRTH alumni

Clinical

Research

Campus

Experimental

Research

Campus

EHA Research Campus

Target audience: researchers

- Experimental Research Campus

- Clinical Research Campus

Excellence programs with mentoring (TRTH

and CRTH)

Didactics online or live

Basic online training

Goal of the EHA Clinical Research Campus

To improve the quality of clinical hematology

research in Europe and beyond by providing

education accessible to a wide(r) audience, filling

a need in the hematology community.

EHA Clinical Research Campus

GCP

•Basic training online

CRT

•in depth knowledge

•didactics

•modules or whole program

•Online: CRTO or

•Live: CRTL

•for anyone with an interest and with GCP

CRTH

•in depth knowledge

•didactics

•comprehensive

•mentorship

•skills training

•top talents only

•CRTO is prerequisite

To be developed by task force

Existing program

Priorities for new modules driven by

• The need of applicants

• CRTH to have prework to alleviate the intensity of the

November workshop

• Results of the membership survey indicating that funding is the

biggest challenge for researchers

Topics for e-course development

• Driven by the need of applicants and membership

survey for all researchers:1. Practical tips on writing a good grant

2. How to get your work published in HemaSphere and other journals

• Driven by the need for CRTH: 3. Patient retention

4. Bias

5. Biobanking

• Driven by the workflow for designing and running a

clinical trial6. Roadmap with pop up text, written by CRTH alumni/faculty (next slide)

Needs of all the applicants for CRTH so farTable 1

Learning needs filled in by all eligible CRTH applicants since its inception (n=149)

number of times

indicated (n=703, as

each applicant could

choose 5 topics)

How to initiate a clinical trial 82

How to use statistics -> already available 73

Getting your trial funded 66

How to appropriately select endpoints 60

How to use/develop biomarkers in clinical trials 48

Maximize collaboration with Co-investigators centers that identify and include patients 36

Manuscript writing 32

Statistics and meta-analyses 31

How to ensure adequate data quality 29

How to get your work published 27

Bio banking 24

Dealing with EU regulation on clinical trials 23

How to present your project at a meeting 22

How to ensure adequate patient recruitment 21

Patient safety 21

Maximize collaboration with Cooperative groups 19

Monitoring Data collection, Source verification Local and Central data management 18

Maximize collaboration with CRO's/CRA/Pharmaceutical companies/data managers 15

Dealing with ethic committees 14

Defining patient eligibility criteria 14

Presenting positive and negative results 10

Knowing the incidence of eligible patients 6

How to follow-up and protocol for loss to follow-up 5

Maximize collaboration with Patient organizations 4

Maximize collaboration with EMA 3

EHA Experimental Research Campus

Basic training online

TRTO

• in depth knowledge

• didactics

• modules or whole program

• Online: TRTO

TRTH

• in depth knowledge

• didactics

• comprehensive

• mentorship

• skills training

• top talents only

To be developed by task force, take care to maintain relation with ASH while developing an EHA branded Experimental Research Campus

Existing program with ASH

EHA Experimental Research Campus

‒ Differs from clinical research:

• techniques used change rapidly

‒ membership survey shows biggest challenge: funding

‒ First topics to be developed (not specific to

experimental/clinical):

• Practical tips on writing a good grant

• How to get your work published in HemaSphere and other journals

Work with external parties for creation of materials, and for

scientific input.

Additional investment needed: € 50.000,- per topic

6 topics = € 300.000,-

Content plan 2019-2020 – Research Campus

Platform development

Outside creating content the EHA Campus platform as such should be

developed to:

- keep up with developments in online learning

- create infrastructure for:

- organization webinars

- new learning formats, such as gamification

- meeting registration

- payment

- continue optimizing structure and user friendly design

Additional investment needed: € 200.000,-

From Tactics to Tools......

Part 2. European Hematology Curriculum

European Hematology Curriculum

Curriculum is updated every 5 years:

- New version in 2022

- Preparations to start end 2020

No additional investment needed

Pediatric Curriculum:

- Gap with Pediatrics identified

- Task force with pediatric hematologists is being composed

- Implementing pediatric curriculum on EHA website requires additional

investment

Additional investment needed: € 50.000,-

From Tactics to Tools.....

Part 3. European Hematology Exam

- Main session: Amsterdam, June 14, during EHA24

- Parallel session: Bern, Switzerland, June 14

To provide access to all those interested in obtaining the extra quality stamp, EHA invited all European national societies to organize a local parallel session. 8 countries interested so far.

Challenge of organization by National Societies: more difficult to create ‘hubs’.

Exam 2019

Exam 2020 and beyond

Expand question database to be prepared for:

- Progress test on EHA Campus

- Exam 2 times a year (2nd time with parallel sessions in various regions)

Additional investment needed for support and review of all questions:

€ 30.000,-

Set up parallel sessions in hubs in 3 regions, organized by EHA instead of

National Societies = accessible to all instead of only national candidates.

Additional investment needed: € 100.000,-

From Tactics to Tools.....

Part 4. Outreach

Outcome Outreach Comm. meeting

Meeting: January 10 & 11

Current program / activities

‒ Hematology Tutorials

‒ Highlights of Past EHA (HOPE)

‒ Educational travel grants

‒ Scientific travel grants

Outcome Outreach Comm. meeting

Tactics proposed by the Committee

‒ Continue and expand current activities

‒ Focus on Eastern Europe and Africa (high

need & few EHA activities)

‒ Utilize technology to extend reach of

program and activities

Outreach tools

‒ Seek for at least 3 new partners to organize Tutorials/Hope with

• Additional investment: € 50.000 annually

‒ Eastern Europe: Investigate needs via national societies and organize a

tailored educational program

• Additional investment: € 50.000 annually

‒ Sub-Saharan Africa: Setup digital mentoring and/or consultation program

via secured online portal (preferably part of EHA Campus);

• Investment into portal: € 50.000

Outreach‒ Algeria & Maghreb: Setup molecular diagnostics training program,

including multi-day training in Europe for 5 pax;

• Investment: € 30.000 annually

‒ Create online learning tools from programs of & live meetings (i.e.

Tutorials, SWG Meetings & joint Symposia)

• Recording meeting program: € 10.000 per meeting x 4 mtgs = € 40.000

• Investment: € 40.000 annually

Total estimated investment outreach & live meetings

Annually: € 170.000 + digital consultation portal € 50.000

From Tactics to Tools....

Part 5. Topics-in-Focus Educational Activities

Topics-in-Focus Educational Activities (2019-2020)

- E-courses on SCD and CAR-T (6 total)

- Preceptorship Meetings (2 total)

- 2nd CAR-T meeting (following the 1st in Paris)

- 1st SCD Conference (Q1 2020)

- Educational Material (basic) for:

- Patients

- Nurses

Additional investement needed € 500.000

Investment plan summary

Investment plan - SummaryArea Subarea Investment needed

EHA Campus Platform development

Content plan – Clinicians

Content plan – Clinical Research

Content plan – Bas/transl research

Total EHA Campus

€ 200.000

€ 1.000.000

€ 300.000

€ TBD

€1.500.000

Curriculum Curriculum Update

Pediatrics Curriculum

Total Curriculum

No extra investments

€ 50.000

€ 50.000

European Exam Enlarge MCQ database

Parallel sessions in 3 regions

Total European Exam

€ 20.000

€ 100.000

€ 120.000

Investment plan - SummaryArea Subarea Investment

Outreach Expansion activities

Eastern European HOPE & Tutorials

Digital mentor/consult secure portal

Molecular diagnostics training program

Recording & development meeting materials

Total Outreach

€ 50.000

€ 50.000

€ 50.000

€ 30.000

€ 40.000

€ 220.000

Topics-in-Focus

educational

activities

E-courses on SCD and CAR-T (6 total)

Preceptorship Meetings (2 total)

Educational Material (basic) patients/nurses

Total Topics-in-Focus Edu Act.

€ 200.000

€ 100.000

€ 200.000

€ 500.000

Education Total estimated investment € 2.390.000

Next steps Education Committee

‒ Define how we measure success

‒ Fine tune investment plan and calculate yearly returning costs

‒ Discuss and decide on reporting within the Edu team and towards the

EHA Board

Question to the EHA Board:

Approval on directions and

proposed investments

So that

we can

start