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?
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)
Now I will sum my presentations up and feature the key points. In the first lecture, I talked about web 2.0 and its potential impact on medicine and healthcare through a Prezi.com slideshow.
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.
To be honest, I’m very proud of this university course (this is the first of its kind that is launched at a medical school) and now I’m ready to launch the 3rd semester. The new semester will be centered around a new structure (see below) and a new form of slideshows (Prezi.com). And I’m happy to announce that the whole course will get a brand new website in January where I will publish the content and other details as well.
Here is the new structure:
1st week:
Web 2.0: An introduction into a world of possibilities
Web 2.0 in medicine: Practical examples, an overview of the whole course
2nd week:
The medical blogosphere (why to blog; success stories, advantages; examples)
From the first comment to blog carnivals: Step by step (how to start and maintain a medical blog)
I’m really exhausted as the 2nd semester is over and I have a lot to do before launching the 3rd semester in September. For example, the Department of Public Health will ask all of their students to attend the course next year, so the feedback is quite positive. Students had to fill a survey on Surveymonkey.com before and after the course, and I will publish the results soon.
Here are the summaries of the topics I covered in 20 slideshows on 10 occasions.
Next semester, I will add a few more topics and change the structure a bit. Your suggestions are always welcome!
As far as I know, this course is still the only course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students globally. I hope I can improve it even more so then students can get a clear picture about how they could use web 2.0 tools in their future practices.
Here is the slideshow I presented at the AcuteZorg.nl Health 2.0 event in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on the 24th of March, 2009. It is the synergy of what I talk about in the first part of the Medicine 2.0 Course.
