3rd Semester: New Mission September 8, 2009

To be honest, I’m very proud of this university course (this is the first of its kind that is launched at a medical school) and now I’m ready to launch the 3rd semester. The new semester will be centered around a new structure (see below) and a new form of slideshows (Prezi.com). And I’m happy to announce that the whole course will get a brand new website in January where I will publish the content and other details as well.

Here is the new structure:

1st week:

• Web 2.0: An introduction into a world of possibilities
• Web 2.0 in medicine: Practical examples, an overview of the whole course

2nd week:

• The medical blogosphere (why to blog; success stories, advantages; examples)
• From the first comment to blog carnivals: Step by step (how to start and maintain a medical blog)

3rd week:

• How to be up-to-date in your field of interest? (RSS, Google Alerts, online journals and clinical cases)
• Microblogging: The realm of Twitter and the medical implications

4th week:

• Everything you have to know about Wikipedia (how and why students and doctors should use it)
• The world of medical wikis (how wikis work and how many wikis we know)

5th week:

• Physicians in Social Media (Tiromed, Biowizard, ResearchGate, Facebook…)
• The world of e-patients (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:

• Managing a medical practice online (hospitals in social media, Jay Parkinson; American Well and many more)
• A new way of collaboration: Google Docs (how to write a document online)

8th week:

• Podcasts and medical videos (how and why medical professionals should use these; some examples)
• Education 2.0: medical resources (Youtube, QuizMD, Clinical Cases and Images, Twitter, Flickr and more)

9th week:

• Medical search engines (personalized searches, Scienceroll Search, how to use Pubmed)
• The Google phenomenon (Google Docs, Health, Calendar, Alerts, etc.)

10th week:

• The dangers of web 2.0 (reputation, 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)