Web 2.0 and Medicine Course: First Part August 18, 2008
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.trackback
As you may remember, I will run the first medicine 2.0 course from this September at the University of Debrecen. Now I’m asking you to add your ideas and suggestions regarding the subjects. This time, we should focus on the first two weeks:
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)
If you have anything in mind, any websites or services I should talk about in my presentations, please let me know.
I will feature this experiment in the first slideshow as an example about how web 2.0 works.
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Who will be attending? Medical students? What year?
I only see blogging on the list. What about networking, wikis, collaborative work, the potential of sites like second life, on line services for patients, electronic patient records, connecting to the right people, finding opportunities, finding other people with similar interests, …
Sometime ago you shared this interesting article with us that can help you:
“Collective memory”
http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/?p=448
he had a good perspective.
Here is the full schedule. http://scienceroll.com/2008/05/27/web-20-and-medicine-course-join-us/
It will be open to medical students and physicians as well, no matter which year.
Congratulations for the course. It’s a great idea to introduce web 2.0 in the learning process of physicians, further more I would say It would be a good idea to introduce just the Internet.
Anyway I would like to suggest you that during the course you could also introduce some trends about the social context where Web 2.0 has emerged: the Network Society. You could find a great theoretical blueprint at Chapter 1. Informationalism, networks, and the network society: a theoretical blueprint pp.3-45. Castells, M. (http://www.ictconsequences.net/wiki/index.php?title=The_Network_Society_a_cross_cultural_perspective#Chapter_1._Informationalism.2C_networks.2C_and_the_network_society:_a_theoretical_blueprint_pp.3-45._Castells.2C_M._Chapter_link)
I’m sure that a better understand of the social and technological context will allow us a better understand of the meaning of Web 2.
Congratulations for the initiative
You can also include Social Networking concept using http://doctorshangout.com as example.