Canadian Healthcare Education Commons

As an initiative of the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) (Ottawa, ON), the CHEC-CESC mission is to provide an online environment and associated commons to share educational materials, designs and practices associated with healthcare education in whatever form across the continuum and between professions in Canada.

The CHEC project creates online communities with the AFMC organization and allows members to add content to these communities either for access privately within their community or shared with the public.

The Drupal Organic Groups framework is used to provide the communities infrastructure for the site. Heavy use of taxonomy allows the users to focus on finding the content and communities they are interested in without having to worry about content types or site structure.