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.
Last September, I launched the first university course that focuses on web 2.0 and medicine for medical students. Almost 50 students attended the 20 slideshows through 10 weeks and they filled a survey out before and after the course. This week I presented the results to a few professors at the university.
So next week, I re-launch the course, but this time in English. I plan to publish some of the teaching material as well.
You have no idea how fed up I am with geographical limits, so if there are enough participants, I’m open to launch the course in Second Life as well. I hope each medical student who is interested in topics such as the medical blogosphere, medical meetings in Second Life, medical Twitterers or search, can attend the course either in real life or virtually.
I also plan to compare the attitude towards web 2.0 of Hungarian students and English speaking students and will publish the results in a peer-reviewed journal.
The course will take place on each Thursday at 17:00-18:30 from 26 of February through 10 weeks in the auditorium of the Department of Pediatrics. 1 credit point.
Those students who would like to attend the course, please, contact the Department of Behavioural Sciences, http://mti.dote.hu/ENG/start.htm
I really enjoyed this course and will re-launch it next February, but that time for English-language students and I will publish all the slides here, not just the keynotes. I will also publish the results of the surveys soon.
I hope you enjoyed it as well and if you are interested in launching such a course at your university anywhere in the world, I would love to help.
Google Lively, News, Groups, Docs, GMail, Images, Google Ads, Scholar, Talk, Youtube, Google Earth, Maps, Calendar, Trends (Flu Trends), Reader, Alerts, Translate, Google Fight
And 23andme
Take-home message: Google can make our lives easier. The question is how close we should let it come to us.
Second slideshow: Medical Search
How to search on the web (Google tricks)
E-patients search at imedix.com, webmd.com, medgle.com
Pubmed tricks
Pubmed Faceoff
Sciencerollsearch.com
Biowizard, trend trackers
Image search, video search
Semantic concept, chacha.com?
Take-home message: Search properly and help your patients search properly online.
More than 15 million users, 28,274,505 online hours
What does SL mean for people?
It used to mean sex and money (but not now)
Game? (chess); 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 will be redirected to orientation island to learn the basic features.
Avatars: alter egos or different avatars
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)
