FY12 Program Announcement Released -- Developer Tools for Medical Education Public Physiology Research Platform (DTME-PRP)

Applications for the Developer Tools for Medical Education Public Physiology Research Platform (DTME-PRP) Program Announcement are being solicited by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Defense Health Program (DHP). The Developer Tools for Medical Education initiative is primarily focused on the creation of publicly accessible, free, open-license, and/or open-source tools for creation of medical training and education content and technology.   The primary, but not exclusive, purposes of this Program Announcement (PA) are to solicit pre-proposals and then by invitation only, request full proposal submissions for research that will:

1. Create a public physiology research platform for use by the medical simulation development and education community.
2. Enable accurate and consistent simulated physiology across multiple training applications and platforms.
3. Allow for community contributions to this effort.
4. Encourage greater use of scientifically-based physiological & pharmacological predictive technologies.
5. Lower barriers to creating medical training content through availability of this resource
6. Serve the training needs of the military.
7. Expand the corpus of knowledge regarding the use of simulated physiology for medical education.

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