Internet in Medicine University Course: Virtual Reality in Medicine November 11, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Second Life, Slideshow, Video, Virtuality, Web 2.0.6 comments
The 6th week of the world’s first university accredited course focusing on medicine and social media was dedicated to virtual reality in medicine.
First slideshow:
- Definition of virtual worlds
- Why do we need a second life?
- community + online games + simulation
- One example is secondlife.com
A shorter version of the original slideshow with my own narration:
- More than 20 million users, 30,000,000 online hours
- What does SL mean for people?
- It used to mean gambling (but not now)
- Game? work? (The number of Second Life residents generating more than $5,000 in monthly income has more than quadrupled to 116 in the past year, according to San Francisco’s Linden Lab, owner of Second Life.); place?; tool?; entertainment?; sport?; opportunity?; appearance?
- Technological barriers: register, download, install, open, log in
- You can fly, walk, teleport, buy, sell, build.
- Communication (chat, IM, e-mail, voice)
- advantages (3D, media content, fast communication – SL fitness)
- disadvantages (reliability, serious hardware requirement)
- why do we need a SL?
Take-home message: great opportunities for patients and medical professionals as well.
Second slideshow:
- How do medical students and physicians use it?
- AMMC
- Imperial College of London
- NHS London
- Scifoo Lives On
- Genome Island and many more
- Patients?
- Healthinfo Island
- Virtual Ability
- SLStroke and many more
- Where to follow health events?
Take-home message: Second Life provides useful tools to organize meetings, educate and learn without borders.
Free e-guide about medicine and virtual worlds on Webicina.
Internet in Medicine University Course: E-patients and Medical Communities November 2, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in e-patient, Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0.4 comments
The 5th week of the Internet in Medicine university accredited course was focusing on e-patients and medical communities.
First slideshow: The world of e-patients
- Who is a good patient? (referring to I am a good patient, believe it or not; Alejandro R Jadad, Carlos A Rizo, Murray W Enkin; BMJ 2003;326:1293-1295 (14 June), doi:10.1136/bmj.326.7402.1293 )
- Types of patients: the powerful other; external controller, internal controller or google patient or brainsucker or googlers
- An e-patient is equipped, enabled, empowered, engaged, equal and expert.
- Examples (several stories) including maartensjourney.com, Jen, Kerri and many more
- What do e-patients use? Websites (Web MD), blogs (fightpompe.com, sixuntilme.com); Second Life (Healthinfo Island), services (sugarstats.com or traineo.com)
- Community sites:
- Patientslikeme.com: Featuring the research they’re doing
- imedix.com: real-time chat
- dlife.com: biggest diabetic community
- What to do with medical charts and papers? Introduction to the world of personal health records (Google Health, Microsoft Healthvault).
- How does a community work? I posted a message on Twitter, Kerri replied to it and made a video message for the students.
Many thanks to e-Patient Dave deBronkart who also had his voice heard:
Other videos from e-patients:
- Statistics about how patients use the web (source is Pew Internet Project Survey)
- How to help e-patients as doctors (don’t use jargons, be patient, show credible sites focusing on medically reliable information)
- How to judge the quality of a medical website, step-by-step. Using Webicina, HONcode, HBCE.
Take-home message:
Physicians of the 21st century must be qualified to meet the expectations of e-patients. They’re the new generation of patients.
Second slideshow: Doctors in social media
- What is social media?
- Traditional vs social media (pros and cons)
- I have an opinion and post it online, but others have their own opinions as well
- It becomes hard to find information and we need places/sites where information is collected and selected by other experts and collegues.
- How to find a collegue or get answer for a medical question? By using telephone, Google or Facebook? Certainly not…
- We need medical community sites
- Examples: Tiromed.com, Sermo.com, Nature Network and many more.
- Microblogging (Twitter and Friendfeed)
- Advantages of medical communities, disadvantages
- Privacy issues: can you communicate with patients online?
- Facebook stats and optimal privacy settings for doctors in Facebook
Take-home message:
Without properly designed strategy, don’t even think about using social media in your practice.
Lectures this semester:
Internet in Medicine University Course: RSS and Twitter October 19, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0.5 comments
The third week of the Internet in Medicine university accredited course was dedicated to RSS and microblogging. In the first slideshow, I described what RSS is, how to use trend trackers and which tools can help you follow the medical literature easily.
- Before, we had to surf on the web. Now we let the content and information come to us automatically.
- Definition and story of RSS.
- Advantages of RSS (easy to use, free, comprehensive).
- Statistics (medical bloggers tend to read RSS).
- RSS icons.
- How to read RSS (browser -example=Firefox; Google Reader; desktop-based readers – Feeddemon).
- An example, a real tutorial about how to follow the latest articles published on NEJM. Step by step.
- Best friend of docs? Of course, Pubmed. How to follow Pubmed updates easily.
- What to do when a site doesn’t have RSS feed.
- Biowizard.com and other 3rd party Pubmed tools
- Suggestions about how to use Google Alerts efficiently.
A step-by-step guide on Webicina.com about how to keep yourself up-to-date easily.
Take-home message:
Let the information come to you and follow your field of interest easily.
Second slideshow focused on microblogging:
- Definition of Twitter, post, reply, direct message, tweeple, twitterview, etc.
- Good examples in medicine
- How to search on Friendfeed
- How to search on Twitter: tweetscan.com
- If you’re new to Twitter
- Twitter And Health 2.0: A Visual Story
- Follow me on Twitter, if…
- 10 Tips: How to filter discussions on Twitter?
- The Youngest Twitterer and the Future of Health Management
- What you have to know about Twitter
- 10 Reasons Why I Use Twitter
- Tips and Tricks: Is Twitter reliable?
Take-home message:
Twitter is the fastest channel of communication these days, but only use it if you have a well designed strategy.
Internet in Medicine University Course: Medical blogging October 4, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Blogging, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Web 2.0.9 comments
We just finished the second lecture of the “Internet in Medicine” university credit course which was dedicated to medical blogging. Here is the summary of my presentations.
- Definition of blog, post, trackback, pingback, comment, tag.
- First blog: Jorn Barger, 1997
- Technorati statistics about the state of the entire blogosphere
- Blogs in plain English:
- Types of blogs and bloggers
- Major medical blogs as examples: Kevin, MD; Medgadget; Sixuntilme; Doctor Anonymous; Street Anatomy.
- Analyzing the results of the study of Ivor Kovic et al. (Examining the Medical Blogosphere: An Online Survey of Medical Bloggers)
- Blog carnivals and microcarnivals
- How to educate with blogs (e.g. Alan J Cann)
- Some examples such as the recent post from Sergey Brin about his genes and the posts it led to (Gene Sherpa, Scienceroll, Discovering Biology in a Digital World)
- Dangers and how to fight them: Honcode, privacy issues, HIPAA, etc.
- The lesson of Dr. Flea
- Money is not everything: the Scienceblogs.com story and many more
- Why do physicians blog?
- Future? Streaming your life. E.g.: yongfook.com
In the second slideshow, I described how to start a new blog step-by-step.
- You need to answer 3 questions first before starting a blog:
- What kind of blogger will I be?
- Where should I blog? WordPress.com
- How should I blog?
- My “3 blogging rule” described what you need to become a good blogger: commitment, consistency and openness
- Shared many examples about how to build a successful medical blog.
Take-home message:
A medical blog can be a perfect channel to make new contacts, find new opportunities and share your ideas with the world.
The 2 slideshows are described in details on Webicina.com’s e-guide:
See you next week when we will talk about Twitter in Medicine and also how to keep yourself up-to-date with RSS.
A Periodic Table of Google Elements September 10, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Google, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Visualization.4 comments
The new semester of my Internet in Medicine university elective course for medical students is coming soon, so I’ve already started looking for new materials and updates about the topics I cover. There is a presentation about Google in the 9th week and I just found this periodic table of Google elements. So far, I’ve been using the periodic table of collaboration.
Real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits September 9, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Medicine 2.0 Course, Video, Visualization, Web 2.0, Wikipedia.add a comment
In the Internet in Medicine electice course for medical students, I always mention how Wikipedia works in real-time in the Wikipedia lecture. I also show a video to them about the London bombings and how the related entry changed from second to second:
Well, this semester I will show them something even better, the real-time visualization of Wikipedia edits:
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.
Internet in Medicine Course Week 10: Future of Web May 3, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health 2.0, Medical education, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Medicine 2.0 Course, Web 2.0.6 comments
I launched the world’s first elective course at a medical university focusing on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students in 2008. Now this is the 4th semester and the 10th week was dedicated to the future of web and medicine. Here is the outline of my presentations.
First part of the Prezi.com slideshow: Towards web 3.0
- Buzzwords! (there is no physical difference between web or web 2.0)
- Features of web 1.0, web 2.0 and web 3.0
- Concept of semantic web: example of collecting stamps
- I write documents about all of my stamps and later I want to find stamps with red background
- What to do? I do a search but will find the Red Cross stamp and other stamps that have red in their names but don’t have a red background.
- Solution: tell the computer stamp is a stamp, but red is a colour.
- Give meaning to information.
- Wolfram Alpha medical/clinical examples.
- + OpenID, interoperability (peoplebrowsr.com)
- Powerset.com, Hakia.com, Twine.com, Freebase.com
- What’s next?
- Web 4.0? (glidedigital.com)
- myrl.com, mobile 2.0, medical internet TV
Take-home message: The story is just about to begin…
Second part of the slideshow: Summary of the last 10 weeks
- 10 weeks – 20 slideshows
- 2 slideshows each week
- 2 major questions in each slideshow
- Examples for all the tools and sites we have talked about.
- This is the first university credit course of its kind in the world.
Take-home message: I hope I could help you enter the web 2.0 era and make your online presence as efficient as possible.
Third part of the slideshow: Survey results
- Students filled a survey before and after the course.
- Now I analyzed the results which we will publish in a peer-reviewed journal soon.
