Semester 3 Week 8: Education 2.0

November 15, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

First 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; Did you know 3.0
  • We’re digital natives.
  • Many examples, statistics about the problems with education
  • “If you want to teach me, you first have to reach me”
  • Wikipedia, Quiz.md, mind mapping, slideshare, Second Life simulations, thinkanatomy.com, twitter, friendfeed, and many more examples students can use in their studies

Take-home message: The web is full educational resources. Let’s start using them.

Second slideshow: New Media in Medicine and Science

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Take-home message: The channels of media are changing so doctors can reach patients in different ways; researchers can interact more easily.

Semester 3 Week 7: Social Media in Healthcare

November 15, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

First slideshow: Medical practices online

  • What is social media
  • How Mayo Clinic uses social media
  • Describing Hello Health
  • Why doctors must organize their practices properly?
  • Lifehacks about how to be efficient online
  • Google Docs, Home Blood Pressure Monitoring, Connotea.org, etc.
  • Clinical Cases: Medting, Clinical Cases and Images, Cases Journal
  • Conferences: conferencealerts.com, gotomeeting.com
  • Tools: Second Life, Google Calendar, RSS, podcast
  • Twitter tips
  • Homepage = reputation

Take-home message: Make your work as efficient as possible.

Second slideshow: Collaboration Online

  • Collaboration so far: mails, e-mails, etc.
  • Now: docs.google.com (how to edit, open, save, publish, etc)
  • Zoho.com
  • What kind of offline tools we have to substitute online?
  • Table = wiki
  • White board = Twitter
  • Notes = Google Docs
  • Talk = Skype
  • And many more: Google Groups, blogs, Friedfeed rooms, Ning.com, Flickr.com…

Take-home message: There are no boundaries of collaboration any more.

Semester 3 Week 6: Virtual Reality in Medicine

November 1, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

First slideshow:

  • Why do we need a second life?
  • community + online games + simulation
  • One example is secondlife.com

A shorter version of the original slideshow:

  • 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)
  • disadvantages (reliability, serious hardware requirement)
  • why do we need a SL?

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Take-home message: great opportunities for patients and medical professionals as well.

Second slideshow:

Take-home message: Second Life provides useful tools to organize meetings, educate and learn without borders.

Semester 3 Week 5: E-patients and doctors in social media

October 23, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

First slideshow: The world of e-patients

  • Statistics about how patients use the web (source is Pew Internet Project Survey)
  • Describing apomediation
  • How to help e-patients as doctors (don’t use jargons, be patient, show credible sites focusing on medically reliable information)

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

Take-home message:

Without properly designed strategy, don’t even think about using social media in your practice.

Semester 3 Week 4: Wikipedia and Medical Wikis

October 18, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

To be honest, this is my favourite topic in the field of medicine 2.0 as I’ve been a Wikipedia administrator for 2 years now.

  • Facebook + Google + Flickr (=) Wikipedia
  • How to build an encyclopedia? Pay professionals? Certainly not.
  • I believe in the power of masses…
  • Wikipedia statistics, history (Larry Sanger, Jimmy Wales)
  • 10 most visited websites in the world: Wikipedia is the 6th one.
  • Why is Wikipedia great? (Free, fast, comprehensive, discussions, easy to edit, objective, etc)
  • Why it isn’t great. (Almost the same reasons)
  • Vandalism and how we fight it: Huggle
  • Basics of editing an article; page history, talk pages
  • A Wikipedia article minute by minute:

Take-home message:

Wikipedia is a great place to start your research, but should never be the last source you finish your research with.

Second slideshow was dedicated to medical wikis.

  • We need wikis.
  • Definition of wiki
  • Wikis in plain English:

Take-home message:

If you want to share and create content online, a wiki is a great tool to use.

Semester 3 Week 3: RSS and Twitter

October 18, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

In the second weekm we focused on RSS, trend trackers and tools you can follow the medical literature easily with.

  • 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).
  • A little bit of statistics (medical bloggers tend to read RSS).
  • RSS icons.

  • How to read RSS (browser; Bloglines; desktop-based readers).
  • 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.
  • Video: RSS in Plain English

Take-home message:

Let the information come to you and follow your field of interest easily.

Second slideshow focused on microblogging:

Take-home message:

Twitter is the fastest channel of communication these days, but only use it if you have a well designed strategy.

Semester 3 Week 2: Medical Blogosphere

October 18, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

The second week was dedicated to the medical blogosphere. Key points:

  • 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:

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?
  • 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.

Semester 3 Week 1: Web 2.0

October 18, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

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.

  • First I described what web 2.0 means.
  • Shared some positive examples outside medicine such as

And negative ones as well:

  • Also shared statistics and numbers.
  • The rest of the slideshow was based on what I have recently presented in The Netherlands.

Web 2.0 in Medicine University Course: Pictures

October 18, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

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.

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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.

Next Thursday, I will talk about e-patients and doctor communities.

3rd Semester: New Mission

September 8, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

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)

3rd week:

4th week:

  • Everything you have to know about Wikipedia (how and why students and doctors should use it)
  • The world of medical wikis (how wikis work and how many wikis we know)

5th week:

6th week:

7th week:

  • Managing a medical practice online (hospitals in social media, Jay Parkinson; American Well and many more)
  • A new way of collaboration: Google Docs (how to write a document online)

8th week:

9th week:

  • Medical search engines (personalized searches, Scienceroll Search, how to use Pubmed)
  • The Google phenomenon (Google Docs, Health, Calendar, Alerts, etc.)

10th week:

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