MDCU MedUMORE: a national digital platform for equitable and lifelong medical education in Thailand and beyond
Nijasri C Suwanwela, Surin Assawawitoontip, Gompol Suwanpimolkul, Sakunee Bharakulsuksathit, Pravee Kruachottikul, Chris Charoenlap, Sekh Thanprasertsuk, Aisawan Petchlorlian, Wasin Laohavinij, Nattawan Utoomprurkporn, Maneerat ChayanupatkulAbstract
Problem
Inequities in educational infrastructure, faculty availability, and access to continuing professional development contribute to variability in physician preparedness across Thailand, particularly between urban and rural settings. Newly graduated physicians are frequently deployed to resource-limited areas with inconsistent access to structured continuing education and specialist supervision. Existing global digital learning platforms are often English-dominant and not aligned with local epidemiology, competency frameworks, or regulatory requirements. These gaps promote reliance on fragmented learning resources and affect workforce readiness. To address these challenges, MDCU MedUMORE was developed as a national digital medical education platform to support equitable access to standardized, contextually relevant learning resources.
Approach
MDCU MedUMORE was launched in June 2022. The platform integrates multimodal educational resources, including video lectures, interactive modules, infographics, eBooks, simulation-based learning, and live educational events aligned with national competency frameworks and continuing medical education requirements. Instructional design is informed by constructivist, experiential, cognitive load, and social learning principles and operationalized through modular learning pathways, case-based content, and embedded assessment. Content is produced through standardized multidisciplinary workflows with iterative refinement guided by user analytics and feedback. Platform navigation is supported by artificial intelligence–assisted search and content recommendation.
Outcomes
By the end of 2025, the platform reached nearly 25,000 registered users with approximately 5 million video views across all Thai provinces and neighboring countries. Early data demonstrate high learner satisfaction, post-test knowledge gains in selected modules, and improvements in learner confidence and procedural performance in simulation settings. Broad geographic uptake and increasing interprofessional participation suggest progress toward improving equitable access to continuing medical education.
Next Steps
Future priorities include expansion of artificial intelligence–enabled personalization, multilingual regional collaboration, interprofessional education integration, and public health literacy initiatives. Long-term evaluation will focus on knowledge retention, practice behavior change, and patient-level outcomes to determine sustained workforce and health system impact.