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
The subjournals, the business model, and how PLoS reaches scientists through social media (e.g. Bora Zivkovic once gave a talk at on of my Second Life meetings)
Pros and cons of open access
Take-home message: The channels of media are changing so doctors can reach patients in different ways; researchers can interact more easily.
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)
