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Internet in Medicine University Course: New Media in Medicine and Education 2.0 November 23, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Communication, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Slideshow, Video, Web 2.0.
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The 8th week of the world’s first university accredited course focusing on medicine and social media was dedicated to New Media in Medicine and Education 2.0. Many thanks to Doctor Anonymous who sent  a personal message to my students (see the video below)!

First slideshow: New Media in Medicine

  • Lifehacks about how to be efficient online

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Take-home message: Make your online work as efficient, productive and time-saving as possible.

Second slideshow: Education 2.0

  • What we have to face: lack of inspiration (educators) and lack of motivation (students)
  • But we can find motivation and inspiration online
  • e.g. Ted Talks – Ken Robinson
  • Why? We’re changing (students, even children use different communication channels) – Vision of students;
  • We’re digital natives, Generation Z.
  • Many examples, statistics about the problems with education
  • “If you want to teach me, you first have to reach me”

Take-home message: The web is full of educational resources. Use them wisely.

Lectures this semester:

Chart the Evidence Instead of Peer-Review September 9, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical journalism, Medicine 2.0, science, Visualization, Web 2.0.
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Alex O Holcombe and Hal Pashler, co-developers of Chart the Evidence, believe instead of peer-review, we should create evidence charts just like that:

This free site leads students to glean evidence from the research literature, articulate theories, and consider whether each piece of evidence supports or undermines each theory.

See a toy example chart or read about evidence-charting in our blog.

Working scientists find the site useful for quickly creating a compact representation of the evidence for and against competing hypotheses.

I have to admit, it’s not a bad idea. I’m sure the majority of scientists is sick of peer-review, partly because it’s anonimous in most cases, and also because it doesn’t always help improve the manuscript. But the research communities would clearly benefit from such evidence charts. I’m curious to see what the editorial boards of peer-reviewed journals have to say on this.

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine September 3, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical journalism, Medicine, science.
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A collegue of mine pointed out that there is a journal for negative results in biomedical research,the Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine:

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects of unexpected, controversial, provocative and/or negative results/conclusions in the context of current tenets, providing scientists and physicians with responsible and balanced information to support informed experimental and clinical decisions.

Not every unexpected observation, controversial conclusion or proposed model will turn out to be of such groundbreaking significance. Nor will they even be confirmed by subsequent scientific progress. However, we strongly believe that such “negative” observations and conclusions, based on rigorous experimentation and thorough documentation, ought to be published in order to be discussed, confirmed or refuted by others. In addition, publishing well documented failures may reveal fundamental flaws and obstacles in commonly used methods, drugs or reagents such as antibodies or cell lines, ultimately leading to improvements in experimental designs and clinical decisions.

Certainly, there was a niche for that and I’m curious to see how it evolves.

British Medical Journal Open! August 18, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Open Access.
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I was a bit surprised but at the same time glad to see the details about the upcoming (autumn, 2010) BMJ Open, an open access journal of the BMJ Group.

BMJ Open is an open access journal for general medical research.

Not only will the journal publish traditional full research reports, including small or low-impact studies, but we intend to shed light on all stages of the research process by publishing study protocols, pilot studies and pre-protocols. The journal will also place great emphasis on the importance of data sharing; raw data will be linked to at its repository or hosted online as supplementary material wherever possible.

Authors will be asked to pay article-processing charges on acceptance, although waivers will be available on request. The ability to pay will not influence editorial decisions; payment requests will be made on acceptance.

JournalFire: Online Journal Clubs July 5, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Community Site, Health, Health 2.0, Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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It’s not so complicated to organize journal clubs online for example on Friendfeed or Twitter, but JournalFire will certainly make it even easier. I asked John Delacruz, co-founder, how JournalFire differs from e.g. Friendfeed.

A major difference is how we give special treatment to journal articles.  We give every journal article its own page which aggregates the discussion about the article, and our users’ interactions with the article.  For instance, if you visit the following articles on JournalFire, you’ll see the people and groups that have found the article interesting, and their comments.

http://journalfire.com/pmid/19833965
http://journalfire.com/doi/10.1073/pnas.1001028107

You can also follow articles, much like you would follow people on Friendfeed.  For instance, if you followed all your publications, any comments about those articles would appear in your feed on your home page.

The only disadvantage is you can have only 4 members for free, but if you want to build a really big community, it will cost you $29 a month.

Health 2.0 News: JMIR, Wi-Fi and IF June 30, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in eHealth, Google, Health, Health 2.0, Medical journalism, Medical Search, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Second Life, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.
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Specifically, the publication with second highest impact factor in the “science” category is Acta Crystallographica – Section A, knocking none other than the New England Journal of Medicine from the runner’s up position. This title’s impact factor rocketed up to 49.926 this year, more than 20-fold higher than last year.

On Tuesday, June 15, FDA launched a web page where you can find summaries of safety information about recently approved drugs and a brief discussion of any steps FDA may be taking to address any identified safety issues. New drugs approved after September 27, 2007 will receive a safety summary within roughly two years of approval. The summaries address safety risks that were not identified during a drug’s development or prior to FDA approval. FDA plans to publish summaries on a quarterly basis.

  • Medical Free/Libre and Open Source Software: Medfloss.org provides a comprehensive and structured overview of Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects for the health care domain. Moreover it offers an open content platform to foster the exchange of ideas, knowledge and experiences about these projects.

Scientific Journal in the 21st Century June 7, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, science, twitter, Web 2.0.
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The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology which is the official publication of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology is the example for all the medical and scientific journals about how they should embrace social media.

A Wiki about Doing Research January 4, 2010

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0, Wiki.
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Dean Giustini just published a fantastic list of educational guides that will help you when you have to do some research and have questions. It’s intended for librarians but I think any kind of medical professionals will find what they are looking for. The material is on HLWiki Canada. A few of the great collections:

Journal of Participatory Medicine September 30, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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I discovered the new Journal of Participatory Medicine in a guest post on E-Patients.net written by John Sharp of the Cleveland Clinic.

Now comes the Journal of Participatory Medicine to fill a gap in journals which acknowledge the active role of the patient in current medical practice. While other journals publish articles on patient participation in health care and social media, but a single journal devoted to this topic will be a welcome addition and make the topic more officially sanctioned as a valid field of medical study. The editorial board is very impressive and lends an important boost to this new journal.

participatory medicine

The Society for Participatory Medicine is a growing organization devoted to promoting the concept of participatory medicine by and among patients, caregivers and their medical teams and to promote clinical transparency among patients and their physicians through the exchange of information, via conferences, as well through the distribution of correspondence and other written materials.

I would love to take active part in the first steps either myself or with my team on Webicina.com.

Evidence-based: Web 2.0 in Medicine September 12, 2009

Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medical journalism, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Web 2.0.
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There are more and more articles published in peer-reviewed journals that focus on how web 2.0 can be used in medicine:

The National Board of Physicians has developed specific ethical guidelines for web sites devoted to health issues and specifically for physician-authored content. The National Board of Physicians acknowledges that physicians can present themselves, their office, and their specific practice on their web site, notwithstanding any restrictions otherwise applicable to advertising.

We are using collaborative technologies, in the realm of Web 2.0, to develop a web-based knowledge sharing medium for fostering a community of pediatric pain practitioners that engages in collaborative learning and problem solving. We present the design and use of a web portal featuring a discussion forum to facilitate experiential knowledge sharing based on our LINKS knowledge sharing model.

We selected a random sample of 25 out of 769 Multiple Sclerosis patient-generated videos and analyzed their corresponding 557 comments for health information. 320 comments met the inclusion criteria and 70 contained personal health information (PHI). Comments with PHI were sub-characterized for the type of medical information (i.e., diagnosis, date of diagnosis, medication, among others). In this descriptive study, we present the strata within this content and postulate some of the corresponding patient risks and ethical challenges associated with Patient-Generated Content found in YouTube video comments.

Social software and Web 2.0 provides new opportunities for participation and collaborative knowledge construction in peer support and self-care to live well despite transient or permanent health problems. Opportunities include many to many interactions to share and accumulate knowledge and experiences from several perspectives. We are conducting a study to create a collaborative environment for peer support and knowledge construction related to a rare condition.

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