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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Summary: 2nd Semester is Over

May 1, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

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.

E-patients will shape the future of medicine: Slideshow

April 1, 2009 by Bertalan Meskó

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.