Podcasting and Screencasting for Teaching
Mahesh M. Thapa MD, Seattle, WA
Enhanced podcasts can be used to publish both vocal information and the display of images in time with the audio, chapter markers in the audio file and URL Hyperlinks.
Enhanced podcasts benefit both auditory and visual learners and allows mobile learning anytime anywhere. Furthermore it allows a further distribution of lectures.
Audacity and snapkast are two PC based software tools to make enhanced podcasts.
Suggestions when preparing and enhanced podcast:
- have a scripts
- get a headset to dictate
- normalize the audio content to make sure the volume is correct
- good hardware should be available to create the podcast
- podcast should be between 12 and 15 minutes
Another option is screencasting where the actions on the screen are recorded and can be used to construct demonstration video's. Screencasting on the ipad can be done by using 'Explain everything'. Screencasting is ideal for step by step processes and provides a movie as result that can be viewed on any platform.
e-Publishing
Michael L. Richardson MD, Seattle, WA
Currently, making your own book is easily done by publishing an ebook which provides many advantages such as easy distribution, good images, interactive content, etc.
On pc you can use Sigil to create an epub file in a wysiwyg method. On the Mac iBooks Author is the most prominent choice which is also free and provides a very powerfull tool. The books can be easily distributed through amazon or the apple store.
Showing posts with label teaching files. Show all posts
Showing posts with label teaching files. Show all posts
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
RSNA 2012 - Leveraging Imaging Informatics to Improve RadiologyEducation: Beyond the Teaching File
Simulation is prominent in many specialties and jobs and should also play a more important role in radiology.
To make a Simulation two steps are fundamental:
1. Make a model of the system
2. Run the model over time
Simulation is done to practice situations that in real are difficult, expensive or dangerous to perform or to train and model new situations.
In the future Simulation has a potential in educational, training, evaluation and quality improvement settings within radiology. Many opportunities of simulation are apparent in radiology ranging from low to high fidelity simulation.
A lot of information is collected in training and daily work in radiology using Google. More dedicated search engines are much less frequently used (e.g. Yottalook or GoldMiner).
Radiology education could also leverage the PACS and RIS and thus use the material available in the hospital. RIS and PACS are tremendous resources of data to be used for systems like:
1. Report comparator (providing a list of reports showing both temporary and final report with tracked changes)
2. Quantitative reporting skills evaluation (computation of changes percentage in each report, should go down in time)
3. Discrepancy logger (the trainee will receive a mail from a attending radiologist based on a small form filled out after evaluation of the report)
4. call simulator (residents can look into the cases reported by the discrepancy logger as a learning tool)
5. Resident educational dashboard (a full access to different teaching tools with the ability to compare the own performance with peers)
In summary this sessions showed that IT technology can be implemented to improve radioogy education. This ranges from simulation in different ways to implementation of data mining and use of interactive devices such as clickers during classroom sessions. Interesting tools were presented to provide residents with information about thei performance and to support them in the evaluation of their own reports. Furthermore, the use of simulation in many different ways in radiology to increasae knowledge or awareness is also demonstrated as being an important topic for the future. The final presenter talked about how to introduce clickers and how you can increase the interaction by having group based learning by having students discuss their answers with their neighbors.
To make a Simulation two steps are fundamental:
1. Make a model of the system
2. Run the model over time
Simulation is done to practice situations that in real are difficult, expensive or dangerous to perform or to train and model new situations.
In the future Simulation has a potential in educational, training, evaluation and quality improvement settings within radiology. Many opportunities of simulation are apparent in radiology ranging from low to high fidelity simulation.
A lot of information is collected in training and daily work in radiology using Google. More dedicated search engines are much less frequently used (e.g. Yottalook or GoldMiner).
Radiology education could also leverage the PACS and RIS and thus use the material available in the hospital. RIS and PACS are tremendous resources of data to be used for systems like:
1. Report comparator (providing a list of reports showing both temporary and final report with tracked changes)
2. Quantitative reporting skills evaluation (computation of changes percentage in each report, should go down in time)
3. Discrepancy logger (the trainee will receive a mail from a attending radiologist based on a small form filled out after evaluation of the report)
4. call simulator (residents can look into the cases reported by the discrepancy logger as a learning tool)
5. Resident educational dashboard (a full access to different teaching tools with the ability to compare the own performance with peers)
In summary this sessions showed that IT technology can be implemented to improve radioogy education. This ranges from simulation in different ways to implementation of data mining and use of interactive devices such as clickers during classroom sessions. Interesting tools were presented to provide residents with information about thei performance and to support them in the evaluation of their own reports. Furthermore, the use of simulation in many different ways in radiology to increasae knowledge or awareness is also demonstrated as being an important topic for the future. The final presenter talked about how to introduce clickers and how you can increase the interaction by having group based learning by having students discuss their answers with their neighbors.
Monday, November 26, 2012
RSNA 2012 - New and Improved Features and Functionality of the RSNAMIRC Teaching File Software(LL-INE1201)
New and Improved Features and Functionality of the RSNA MIRC Teaching File Software
William Weadock, MD , Sarah Abate, BS
Over the past few years, the RSNA MIRC system has undergone significant improvements in functionality. Installation, creation and display of teaching file, and conferencing have been significantly improved. The MIRC system has become the standard format for teaching file software. The software is free to download and use and is supported by the RSNA. This exhibit will show how the system can be incorporated in daily workflow.
Key inprovements in functionality shown at the demonstration at RSNA are the ability to further anonymize or de-identify the DICOM data not only by de-identification of DICOM fields but also by removing parts of the image that could possibly contain patient related information such as in ultrasound captures or secondary captures. Another feature is the ability to export directly to powerpoint of one or more cases to construct a presentation on a certain topic.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
ECR 2012 - SS505/B0376 - Semantic navigation in radiology
In this presentation (abstract here) a method was proposed that links semantic information from the radiology report directly to images. Additional value of the methodology would be the capability to auto compare what is written in the radiology report to the pathology reports that are constructed later in the diagnostic process. To achieve their objective the researchers developed tools to analyze and automatically index text to include them into a search engine. They suspect possible applications in clinical, research and teaching environments.
Clinical:
- Validate diagnosis
- Looking for best-practice reports
- Mobile app for clinicians
- Integration in referring physician portal
- Collecting patient cohorts
- Database for teaching cases
- Prepare lectures and talks
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
IHE TCE profile in combination with Mirc
A couple of weeks ago we threw a setup together to demonstrate the TCE profile for setting up teaching files.
By combining a TCE Selector and Mirc (both to be obtained from the RSNA Mirc wiki) together with KPacs ( free PACS archive and viewer) running on a couple of simple PCs we got a easy setup for making teaching files. From the PACS viewer a direct DICOM send can be done to the locally installed TCE selector which allows additional information entry in a pop-up. Subsequently, the data is tranfered to the Mirc system and instantly available in the teaching file.
By combining a TCE Selector and Mirc (both to be obtained from the RSNA Mirc wiki) together with KPacs ( free PACS archive and viewer) running on a couple of simple PCs we got a easy setup for making teaching files. From the PACS viewer a direct DICOM send can be done to the locally installed TCE selector which allows additional information entry in a pop-up. Subsequently, the data is tranfered to the Mirc system and instantly available in the teaching file.
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