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In face of the need of constant quality improvements of medical curricula, it is important to seek strategies for their efficient management. The general trend is to develop electronic support tools to streamline the curricular design, analysis and harmonization.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec id=\"j_bams-2020-0047_abs_002\">\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Based on the requirements we have identified by the needs analysis among curriculum designers, teachers and managers at five universities involved in the Building Curriculum Infrastructure in Medical Education (BCIME) project, and evidence published in literature on curriculum development, we have developed methodological guidelines on curriculum innovations and a software-based tools that help manage, map and analyse curricula in the medical and healthcare study fields.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec id=\"j_bams-2020-0047_abs_003\">\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>In this paper, we share our\u00a0experiences with building and implementation of EDUportfolio, an online platform developed within our consortium and intended to facilitate harmonisation and optimisation of medical outcome-based curricula. Its functionalities and outputs were verified by pilot mapping of Anatomy curricula as taught at partner universities in five European countries.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec id=\"j_bams-2020-0047_abs_004\">\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The visualisation and the analysis of described curriculum data using natural language processing techniques revealed both the hidden relations between curriculum building blocks and a set of overlaps and gaps in curricula. In addition, we demonstrate both the usability of the platform in the context of the involved academic environments and the capability to map and compare curricula across different institutions and different countries.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1515\/bams-2021-0143","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,25]],"date-time":"2021-11-25T04:26:41Z","timestamp":1637814401000},"page":"1-11","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Development and implementation of an online platform for curriculum mapping in medical education"],"prefix":"10.5604","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1942-0497","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jaroslav","family":"Majern\u00edk","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Informatics , Pavol Jozef \u0160af\u00e1rik University in Ko\u0161ice, Faculty of Medicine , Ko\u0161ice , Slovakia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0752-3958","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrea","family":"Kacmarikova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Informatics , Pavol Jozef \u0160af\u00e1rik University in Ko\u0161ice, Faculty of Medicine , Ko\u0161ice , Slovakia"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0572-5767","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Martin","family":"Komenda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University , Brno , Czech Republic"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2956-2093","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrzej A.","family":"Kononowicz","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine , Jagiellonian University Medical College , Krak\u00f3w , Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7756-7668","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna","family":"Kocurek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Education , Center for Innovative Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College , Krak\u00f3w , Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5959-9244","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Agata","family":"Stalmach-Przygoda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Education , Center for Innovative Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College , Krak\u00f3w , Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7543-0046","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"\u0141ukasz","family":"Balcerzak","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical Education , Center for Innovative Medical Education, Jagiellonian University Medical College , Krak\u00f3w , Poland"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4335-5162","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Inga","family":"Hege","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medical Education Sciences, University of Augsburg , Augsburg , Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9689-8569","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Adrian","family":"Ciureanu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medical Informatics and Biostatistics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iasi , Iasi , Romania"}]}],"member":"3689","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,11,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023011008384434842_j_bams-2021-0143_ref_001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Wright, B, Mynett, JR. 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