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)
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.
What do e-patients use? Websites (Web MD), blogs (fightpompe.com, sixuntilme.com); Second Life (Healthinfo Island), services (sugarstats.com or traineo.com)
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.
It’s a real pleasure that the new semester of my Internet in Medicine course just launched with 140 registered students. Here are the core points of my presentations as well as useful videos and links. In the first week’s lecture, the aim was to give a detailed introduction of web 2.0/social media and to highlight potential applications and solutions in medicine and healthcare through a Prezi.com slideshow.
This is still the first and only university accredited course about web 2.0 and medicine for medical, dentistry, pharmacy and public health students.
Results from last semester’s surveys which will soon be published in a journal.
The core points of the lectures of the next 9 weeks (blogging, Twitter, RSS, Wikipedia, social networking, e-patients, Second Life, practicing online, collaboration, podcasts, new media, education 2.0, Google, semantic search, future of web 2.0)
Future: semantic web, mobilhealth, wireless apps, e-patients (Quantified Self), personalization, geotagging and rational web usage
The rest of the slideshow was based on what I have recently presented in The Netherlands.
Next week’s topic: Medical blogging, from the first comment to blog carnivals
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.
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.
