Web 2.0 and Medicine Course: Join Us! May 27, 2008
Posted by Bertalan Meskó in About me, Education, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.trackback
I’m very excited and proud to announce that next semester I will give 20 slideshows about web 2.0 and medicine at the University of Debrecen, Medical School and Health Science Center. I guess this will be the first Medicine 2.0 university course worldwide.
I’ve written more than 300 posts about the impact of web 2.0 on medical education and healthcare so I feel it’s time to share these thoughts and views with my fellow medical students. Anyway, the lectures will be free for everyone so it would be my pleasure if you could join us from this September in Debrecen (exact dates and times later).
The list of topics I plan to cover (some details):
1st week:
- What does web 2.0 mean? (the main concept and idea of web 2.0)
- Web 2.0 in medicine: Introduction (my usual presentation, see below)
2nd week:
- The medical blogosphere (why to blog; advantages; examples)
- From the first comment to blog carnivals: Step by step (how to start and maintain a medical blog)
3rd week:
- Being up-to-date with RSS (including feedreaders, sites without RSS feed, etc.)
- How to follow easily a specific field of interest (Google Alert, online journals and clinical cases)
4th week:
- Everything you have to know about Wikipedia (how and why to use it)
- The world of medical wikis (how wikis work and how many wikis we know about)
5th week:
- Medical communities: online (Tiromed, Biowizard, ResearchGate, Facebook…)
- Patients on the web (Patientslikeme, D-Life, iMedix and many more)
6th week:
- Second Life: Virtual medicine I. (the advantages and dangers of the virtual world)
- Second Life: Virtual medicine II. (medical exercises and education)
7th week:
- Medical practices on the web (Jay Parkinson; American Well and many more)
- Education online: medical resources (Youtube, QuizMD, Clinical Cases and Images, Twitter, Flickr and more)
8th week:
- Podcasts and medical videos (how and why to use these; some examples)
- A new way of collaboration: Google Docs (how to write a document online)
9th week:
- Medical search engines (personalized searches, how to use Pubmed)
- The Google phenomenon (Google Docs, Health, Calendar, Alert, etc.)
10th week:
- The dangers of web 2.0 (HIPAA, Honcode, anonymous bloggers and credibility issues)
- Future: is there a web 3.0? (Semantic searches and the role of web in the future of medicine)
I also plan to publish my slideshows and to run the whole course online as well (Twitter account, Youtube channel, etc.). Your feedback is much appreciated.
You can find many relevant posts here or just follow our Medicine 2.0 carnival.
Congratulations Bertalan, this is great news and I’m sure your students will benefit greatly.
That being said, one area that you have missed is the impact o Web2.0 on the consumer and how that will affect the delivery of care. Recent talk here in the states is about physicians becoming health coaches working closely with their customers guiding them in their healthcare choices. The Internet is a key tool in such initiatives, often being a forcing function.
As an aside, at a recent conference I attended a speaker made the comment that in some parts of San Francisco, physicians are actually moving their practices to Oakland to get away from the overly informed consumer. That may be an option today, but unlikely to be an option 10 years from now.
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Good luck to you, it looks like you have all the bases covered! You have a great website going here and will look forward to seeing your presentation. I’m only the IT side of things but if there’s anything I can offer for assistance, just drop me a line. Good work. Web 2.0 is the way and growing every day!
Berci,
Congratulations. Sorry I have been incognito for a while. As for your students……They are lucky to have a Yale lecturer teach them such timely topics.
You deserve it.
-Steve
http://www.thegenesherpa.blogspot.com
I’d love to attend, unfortunately, the commute is a little long. Can I beg for you to make as much as possible of the contents available online? You’ll need a convenient wrapper (with RSS feeds) for all the different course elements. I’d suggest WordPress.com, but it is a little restrictive in terms of embedding, so on balance I suggest Wetpaint.com to capture all your fabulous efforts and make them available to the world.
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John, thank you for the suggestion, I will have to include that topic somehow.
Barbara, Steve, Alan, thank you for your support.
I plan to create a Twitter, a Google Mail acocunt for the course and it will have an own blog as well.
I just came across your blog and I love your approach! It’s good to see innovative use of the web and social media.
Congratulations. I am very happy for you
Lectures on Med 2.0, of course you should have on line streaming or at least a YouTube channel! Way to go!
Oh, by the way, last time I checked there was not an article about Med 2.0 on wikipedia. Maybe you could start it.
Take care
Looking forward to it!
I look forward to the webcast, BUT it seems that people are already writing about Web 3.0 and medicine. For instance:
Giustini D. Web 3.0 and Medicine. British Medical Journal (2007) 335:1273-1274.
Do you think you are behind the curve?
Wo0o0oW that is amazing
I am waiting
with my best wishing
Brian, no I don’t. The web 2.0 tools are not used widely among physicians, so first we should focus on these.
Moreover, using web 2.0 tools instead of web 3.0 ones doesn’t mean you are behind the curve.
Or if you use web 3.0, don’t visit homepages and don’t use e-mail any more…
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w00t! Perfect outline.
Only thing I would consider adding would be to illustrate the power of online tools for facilitating collaboration by having adding remote guest instructors. Perhaps PodcastDoctor for the podcast session, Avalon Birke about the challenges of providing psych therapy in SL, or folks like that. Or you could bring in someone (virtually) for 5 minutes of commentary on the topic, w/ Q&A.
You have such a great structure and set of concepts here. I find myself craving a wiki format to add notes and suggestions, and then let the community build a shared resource of these tools. But I understand you are starting with the basics for folks who are not already using these.
Next step … ooooh. What about taking the same structure and applying to to specific medical environments / topics / problems?
Awesome.. will definitely look forward to seeing it (hopefully there will be video).
If there is anything we can do at MEDgle, please do let us know. Would also love your feedback if you can spare a minute.
Ash Damle
http://www.medgle.com/
Ash, thank you for the comment.
I always use Medgle as an example.
Congrats, Bertalan.
Not sure it’s your cup of tea, but I think it’ll be interesting to talk about CAM as well. There’s a site called Mamaherb.com that is a web 2.0 Natural Medicine resource.
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I have been a regular reader of scienceroll but this is the first time i am commenting here.
What prompted me to do this was my use of your open letter in my blog.
Shall get back to you again later.
I’m so glad you liked it and thank you for the mention!
http://neeleshbhandari.blogspot.com/2008/10/open-letter-to-physicians-of-world.html
Congratulations. In few days I´ll included a post about
WEB 2.0 and medicine
Thanks
http://pharmacoserias.blogspot.com/
I teach a course on Online Consumer Health at Tufts University School of Medicine. There is considerable overlap with your course. It is not as popular a topic to teach as it should be!
Lisa, your blog is fascinating. I add it to my feed reader. Have you posted the material of your course somewhere?
And you are absolutely right, but I hope it will be soon.
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well this loks good. but can u explain or online material avaiblabe abt what u had spoken
ok sir i can speak english