Internet in Medicine Elective Course: Summary May 27, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0.7 comments
In 2008, I launched the world’s first university elective course focusing on internet and medicine for medical, dentistry and pharmacy students. Now the 4th semester is just over and I thought I would share the material again. Over 130 students, 10 weeks, 20 slideshows. I tried to cover all the important topics in this area.
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 1: Web 2.0 in Medicine
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 2: Medical blogging
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 3: RSS and Microblogging
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 4: Wikipedia and Medical Wikis
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 5: E-patients and Medical Communities
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 6: Virtual Reality in Medicine
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 7: Social Media in Healthcare
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 8: New Media in Medicine and Education 2.0
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 9: Google Story and Medical Search Engines
- 2010 Spring Semester Week 10: Web 3.0, Web 4.0
What I’m most proud of in this semester is that E-Patient Dave sent a personal video message to my students about being an e-patient and what kind of doctors they should become.
Students filled a questionnaire before and after the course and I plan to publish the results in an open access journal during the summer.
See you this September in the next semester with new materials, Prezi.com slideshows and more.
Webcam Laboratory May 3, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-Science, Education, Innovation, Medicine, science, Video, Visualization.add a comment
Webcam Laboratory offers a great way to teach students about science as it makes the whole process interactive and also interesting. It now has 4 functionalities: time lapse cam, kinematics, microscope and motion cam.
WebCam Laboratory allows you to observe things and phenomena that have always been there around you, but you haven’t had the chance to recognize them. Would you like to measure the depth of a Moon crater? The distance of a star or the length of a single-celled specie? Would you like to know how the circulation of the Sun changes, when the animals of the garden wake up, who tithe the nut in the basement or what kind of birds live around your house?
WebCam Laboratory is exactly what you need, if you are curious how your favorite plant grows day by day, how clouds form or swirl on the sky, or if you just want to see a whole day from the rise of the Sun until it sets.
And a few examples to see:
Medicine in the Virtual World: Molecules and Training April 19, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health, Health 2.0, Healthcare, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Virtuality, Web 2.0.6 comments
- If you are looking for healthcare support groups in Second Life, click here.
- Learning in a Virtual World: Experience With Using Second Life for Medical Education: Most comprehensive overview ever.
- Molecular visualisation (Metaverse Journal)
- One of the best blogs about information dedicated to virtual worlds: john-norris.net
- Medical Training in Second Life (Wall Street Journal)
Scitable: A Collaborative Learning Space for Science April 18, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, genetics, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
I’ve recently come across Scitable, a Nature initiative, that aims to bring together a library of scientific overviews with a worldwide community of scientists, researchers, teachers and students.
DNATwist: Teaching Students About Pharmacogenomics April 18, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in DNA, Education, genetics, Genome, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Pharmacogenomics, Web 2.0.add a comment
Berlin et al. published a very interesting paper in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics about DNATwist which is an online tool for teaching middle and high school students about pharmacogenomics.
DNATwist is a Web-based learning tool that explains pharmacogenomics concepts to middle- and high-school students. Its features include (i) a focus on drug responses of interest to teenagers (e.g., alcohol intolerance), (ii) reusable graphical interfaces that reduce extension costs, and (iii) explanations of molecular and cellular drug responses. In testing, students found the tool and topic understandable and engaging. The tool is being modified for use at the Tech Museum of Innovation in California.
Genomics Education: Videos April 13, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, genetics, Genome, Video, Web 2.0, Youtube channel.1 comment so far
Genome British Columbia has come up with a series of educational videos describing genomics, gene expression or genomics in everyday life.
(Via Genome Web)
Learning Tools Directory 2010 January 15, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Web 2.0.add a comment
Jane Hart, a Social Learning Consultant and founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has a great blog where she has recently featured the Learning Tools Directory 2010 containing more than a thousand (!) quality resources in the following fields:
- Instructional Tools
- Live Tools
- Document & Presentation Tools
- Blogging, Web & Wiki Tools
- Image, Audio & Video Tools
- Communication Tools
- Micro-blogging Tools
- More collaboration tools
- Social Networking and Collaboration Spaces
- Personal Productivity Tools
- Browsers, Players & Readers
- Mobile Tools
Medicine and Web 2.0 University Course: End of 3rd Semester December 15, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.1 comment so far
I’m really proud that I can organize and run the world’s first university credit course focusing on Web 2.0 and medicine at a medical school. This was the third, and so far most successful, semester with 115 students who filled a survey before and after the course. I hope I can publish the results in a peer-reviewed paper soon with the help of real experts in this field.
In the final lecture, I used Prezi.com again and talked about the future of medicine as well as the results of the surveys. I’ve already got some invitations to do at least a part of the course at other international universities. What is sure is that the next semester will launch in February in Debrecen with assignments and tests because I would like to engage students even more. See you there!
Course material (semester 3)
- Week 1: Web 2.0
- Week 2: Medical Blogosphere
- Week 3: RSS and Twitter
- Week 4: Wikipedia and Medical Wikis
- Week 5: E-patients and doctors in social media
- Week 6: Virtual Reality in Medicine
- Week 7: Social Media in Healthcare
- Week 8: Education 2.0
- Week 9: Google Story and Medical Search Engines
- Week 10: Web 3.0, Web 4.0
Social Search Makes It Easier November 1, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, eHealth, Google, Health, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course.add a comment
Do you remember Personas that visualizes the map of your online presence? Here is a better solution. From one point of view, it’s great to have such a useful tool as Google Social Search. A short video about what it is and how it works.
Social Search taps into a user’s social network profiles and displays relevant links and status updates that members of a user’s own social network have shared at the bottom of the default search results page. According to Google, Social Search will enhance the search experience on Google by providing users with more personally relevant search results.
From another point of view, it becomes even easier to find inappropriate content about us online. We know medical students sometimes breach patient privacy on Twitter, Facebook. We know doctors sometimes get sued because of their blogs. I think it’s not their fault. I think this crucial issue must be included in medical education. For example, in my “Medicine and Web 2.0” university credit course, there is a slideshow dedicated to the topic (how to avoid such issues).
We have to let doctors and students know about it. And not for the reason that patients will find these pieces of information easier from now via Google Social Search.
Web 2.0 in Medicine University Course: Pictures October 17, 2009
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Education, Health, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.3 comments
This is the third semester of my university credit course, Web 2.0 in Medicine, that I launched at the Medical School and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen. We are at week 4 out of the 10 and I’m very happy to announce that we just passed the 100 milestone which means now more than a hundred students attend the course. The course has recently become an obligatory one at the Public Health Institute of Debrecen.
I really enjoy the lectures because students are very responsive and have questions. They also have to fill a survey before and after the course so I can see whether their attitude changes during the course.
Next Thursday, I will talk about e-patients and doctor communities.
