Radiology Education Resources:University, Commercial, Non-Profit and Government

Michael P. D'Alessandro, M.D."University of Iowa College of Medicine / University of Iowa Children's Hospital"

michael-dalessandro@uiowa.edu"

www.educationalinformatics.org"www.slideshare.net/michaeldalessandro"

Goal"• Describe "

• University, Commercial, Non-profit, Government Radiology Education Resources"•  For Apps focus on iOS because it has the most"

•  Identify "• Radiology Education Resources that are needed

but have yet to be built"• An opportunity for inter-society cooperation and

collaboration to build them"•  Predict"

• The future"

But First, A Little History Nothing New Under the Sun"

•  Universities are knowledge factories and engines of innovation"•  1989 - Yale - Echocardiography

Encyclopedia - first radiology hybrid digital / analog textbook"

•  1991 - U of Iowa - Hyperlung - first radiology digital textbook"

•  1992 - U of Iowa - Virtual Hospital - first medical + radiology digital library on Internet"

•  1993 - U of Iowa - Virtual Hospital - first medical + radiology Web site"

•  1994 - U of Iowa - Hitchhiker's Guide to Pediatric Imaging - first radiology eBook / App"

University Teaching Files"

rad.usuhs.mil/medpix/ (Get CME)"

University Courses"

www.med-ed.virginia.edu/courses/rad www.ctisus.com"

University Courses"

iTunes U ~ UCLA Radiology"

University Educational Apps"

CTisUsiQuiz ~ iRadiology"

Commercial Textbooks (Free)"

emedicine.medscape.com www.medcyclopaedia.com"

Commercial Textbooks / Teaching Files"

Discounted - $1500 indiv / $2200 group" StatDX vs. radiology search engine"

www.e-anatomy.com www.statdx.com www.radprimer.com"

Commercial Educational Apps"

Low hundreds in number e-Anatomy ~ Radiology Assistant"

Commercial eBooks Radiology"

Formats - iBooks (ePub) ~ iBooks2 (IBA not ePub) ~ Kindle (AZW)"

Low hundreds of radiology iBooks ~ 1,300 radiology Kindle books"

Commercial eBooks Pediatric Radiology"

Formats - iBooks (ePub) ~ iBooks2 (IBA not ePub) ~ Kindle (AZW)"

4 pediatric radiology iBooks ~ 77 pediatirc radiology Kindle books"

What Is Difference Between eBook and Educational App?"

Will educational Apps be replaced by iBooks2?"

Commercial Communities of Practice"

"Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their understanding of this area by interacting on an ongoing basis." "

" " " "- Wenger E. et. al. Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge"

www.auntminnie.com www.sermo.com"

Non-Profit Textbooks Most Popular Radiology Textbook"

www.wikipedia.org"

Non-Profit Courses Flipped Classroom"

www.khanacademy.org"

Government Resources"

www.pubmed.org www.medlineplus.org"

Education Resources That Do Not Yet Exist: An Opportunity for Intersociety Collaboration"

•  Your members are far ahead of where you are in regards to what Internet-based radiology educational resources they would like you to provide for them"

Education Resource NeededWiki Archive of Educational Exhibits From Meetings"•  Educational Exhibits"

•  Were printed posters ~ written in prose ~ discarded at end of meetings ~ few repurposed as review articles"

•  Now are PowerPoint presentations ~ written in bullet points and can't be repurposed for much"

•  Create Wiki for Educational Exhibits"•  Return to posters written in prose ~ easily

repurposed as review articles for journals"•  Over time becomes archive that evolves into

searchable textbook of radiology ~ StatDX competitor that would be free"

•  In 21st century, as number of radiologists in developing world continues to increase, and we move away from US-centric view of radiology, such a resource would build a bridge to them and be wonderful gift to the world"

Education Resource NeededEducational Social Network"

•  A community of radiology learning, teaching, sharing and collaboration"•  Goal - build a radiology learning

community around content, conversations and connections for purpose of improving patient's health"

•  Move from learning solely as an individual to also learning in a group"•  Let's us take learning from proficiency

in radiology to next level - learning to excel in radiology - by creating passionate learners in radiology"

•  Proven to be educationally effective"

Education Resource NeededMassively Open Online Course (MOOC)"

•  Definition: "•  Instructors, learners, course materials dispersed across open Web"•  Posting, reflecting, sharing using social media at its core"•  Curriculum unfolds in practice"

•  Started in Universities, becoming commercial"•  Coursera, Udacity, EdX"

•  Radiology MOOC design"•  Freely open to entire world ~ 3 month subspecialty course"•  Lecture / week"•  Problem set / week solved individually + collaboratively"•  Machine grading of problem set"•  Master teacher session to go over problem set"•  User-contributed cases solved collaboratively"•  Individual learning portfolio maintained and shared"•  Certificate upon completion of course (pay to obtain?)"

Future e-Memory - Digitization Of Your Life"

•  A digital archive of your life"•  "Lifelogging""

•  Made possible / inevitable by"•  Most memories are digital"•  Near-infinite space to store them"•  Every improving technology to recall them"

•  Captures, stores, organizes and makes retrievable your experience + reflected wisdom"

•  You become the librarian, archivist, cartographer and curator of your life"

•  Early example: Evernote"

Future Head Mounted Displays"

• Google Glass"• For Augmented Reality and e-Memory"

Conclusion"

• Radiology educational resources"• State of art "• What needs to be done"

•  Perhaps by inter-society collaboration?"• Future"

•  To review this talk:"• www.slideshare.net/michaeldalessandro"