MeduLine
Specialised, high quality, online Medical Education
About
MeduLine is committed to enhancing medical education worldwide, with a focus on health care professionals working in acute or critical specialties, and a desire to reach resource limited areas where access to quality training is difficult.
Our team strives to support all clinicians and allied health professionals in challenging areas by providing advanced and relevant online training.
MeduLine is an initiative to provide online training programs for the acute and critical aspects of all specialties, with a focus on Anaesthetics, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care, Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine and Trauma Surgery.
The training programmes are developed by clinicians and allied health professionals working in a variety of fields but also in a range of medical systems. This ensures that the materials are relevant and appropriate for medical professionals around the world.
The founders of MeduLine are experienced Consultants in Anaesthesia, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care and Medical Education, and so have a unique understanding of the needs and expectations of medical professionals.
This expertise allows MeduLine to develop highly interactive and customisable online training programs, which can be tailored to the specific training needs of the organisations that request them, ensuring that the training materials are engaging, effective and relevant.
Projects
The MeduLine founders have a proven track record in delivering high quality online medical education, which consistently receives positive learner feedback.
Listed below are the key projects they have developed or led over the last four years:
The following projects were led by the founder(s) of MeduLine:
Anaesthetic e-learning course
This e-learning course was created for German medical students as an introductory module to anaesthesia. It allowed teaching to continue during the Covid pandemic restrictions, but due to its positive student feedback, the course continues to be used.
European Trauma Course Workshop Update
This project provided a thorough update and redesign of all the teaching materials available for the instructors of the European Trauma Course.
European Trauma Course Online Recertification
This online recertification for the European Trauma Course was developed to allow easy access to training for those needing to recertify.
Research: Blended learning for technical skills teaching
This original study was undertaken to compare the traditional 4-step approach to skills teaching with a blended approach using pre-course online elements in addition to face-to-face teaching.
See the full publication for details.
Meet the Team
At MeduLine, we are committed to enhancing medical education worldwide, particularly in areas where access to quality training is limited. Our team is driven to support medical professionals in demanding settings by providing them with advanced online educational materials.
Here’s more about our key contributors:
Elonka Bergmans
Director
Dr Bergmans is a Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospital OWL Bielefeld, Germany, specialising in Trauma and Paediatric Anaesthesia. She has a rich background in various healthcare systems in the Netherlands, UK, Germany, and Malawi, and has participated in global medical emergency relief work, providing her with a unique perspective. As an active clinician and a consultant in Medical Education, she remains at the forefront of medical training and innovation. Dr Bergmans effectively merges her expertise in medical simulation with human factors training, emphasising team training within medical simulations. Additionally, she is proficient in technology enhanced learning, having led the development of significant online resources.
In the four years she served as Educational Lead of the European Trauma Course, she was responsible for the development of the European Trauma Course Online Recertification and the update of the ETC teaching materials.
Her skill in creating web-based educational materials which are suited to a variety of healthcare systems makes her an invaluable member of our team.
Alistair Billington
Director
Dr Billington brings extensive experience from his varied clinical career, which started with Surgical training but progressed to Emergency Medicine with Intensive Care. His special interests are Major Trauma, Resuscitation, Focussed Ultrasound and Medical Education.
Having stepped back from clinical practice, he now focuses full time on Medical Education, applying his experience to developing high quality training materials.
Over the past three years, he has redesigned and updated the European Trauma Course workshop materials and is currently completing a revision of the course manual. He also made significant contributions to the European Trauma Course Online Recertification in 2021, which is accredited for 8 CPD points.
Dr. Billington’s expertise ensures that our courses are practical and clinically relevant. He has always had a strong IT background and has more recently completed training in graphics and image editing, and the use of e-learning authoring platforms.
Advisory Team
We are proud to have an experienced team of advisors who provide their extensive clinical expertise but also their experience of being medical educators in a variety of healthcare settings around the world.
Dr Lode Blondeel
Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon for the Belgian Army, also trained in Emergency Medicine.
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Special interests include Major Trauma simulation training, Resuscitation training, Medical Education and Aviation Medicine.
Dr Ayman Nasr
Consultant Trauma Surgeon & Assistant Professor, King Fahad University Hospital
& College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia.
Special interests include Major Trauma, Resuscitation training and Medical Education.
Dr Maksym Pylypenko
Head of Anaesthesia and ICU department No 2 in the Romodanov Neurosurgery Institute, National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery, Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy of postgraduate education of the National Medical University named after O.O. Bogomolets
Dr Karl Thies
Consultant in Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Prehospital Emergency Medicine at Bielefeld University Hospital. Founder and past chair of the European Trauma Course Organisation.
Special interests pathway optimisation for major trauma patients, paediatric anaesthesia, humanitarian health care and clinical research.
Karl has taken part in 20 missions to Central America, South America, Central Africa and Palestine providing direct clinical care and advanced training for local health care practitioners.
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Katja Kalan Ustar, MD
Consultant in Anaesthesiology, Reanimatology and Intensive Care Medicine at General Hospital Trbovlje, Slovenia.
Special interests include Medical Education, Emergency Medicine and Major Trauma simulation training.
Blog Posts
At MeduLine we want to share interesting topics, highlights and updates in medical education for acute and critical care.
