IAMSE Tech Corner

Google Scholar vs PubMed Searches

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:58:00 +0000

Anne Marie Cunningham has a nice blog post / video clip on how Google Scholar can help make your journal searches easier.

Read the Blog Post Here

Technology Blog - 7 Things

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:43:00 +0000

7 Things You Should Know About...

The EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative's (ELI's) 7 Things You Should Know About... series provides concise information on emerging learning technologies and related practices. Each brief focuses on a single technology or practice and describes:

What it is
How it works
Where it is going
Why it matters to teaching and learning

Use ELI's 7 Things You Should Know About... briefs to:

Enhance faculty development activities
Open a dialogue with senior administrators about emerging technologies and their implications for your institution
Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies

7 Things You Should Know About...pieces provide quick, no-jargon overviews of emerging technologies and related practices that have demonstrated or may demonstrate positive learning impacts. Any time you need to explain a new learning technology or practice quickly and clearly, look for a 7 Things You Should Know About... brief from ELI.

http://www.educause.edu/7Things

Twitter In Medical Education

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:56:00 +0000

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

Twitter In Medical Education

View more presentations from Julie Hewett.

The Use Of Social Media In Medical Education

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 02:54:00 +0000

Check out this SlideShare Presentation:

The Use Of Social Media In Medical Education

View more presentations from Julie Hewett.

Clinical Cases by Organ System

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:53:00 +0000

After a few weeks of clinical practice, medical students and residents realize that patients are often different from the classic disease descriptions in the textbooks. One experienced physician summarized this by saying: "his asthma did not read the book." How to bridge this gap between theory and practice? Our answer was to create this free case-based curriculum of clinical medicine. ClinicalCases.org was featured in the British Medical Journal and Medscape.com, and was referenced several times in the medical education literature. The project is hyperlinked in the websites of 29 medical schools in the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe and Asia.

This case-based curriculum was started by physicians at Cleveland Clinic and Case Western Reserve University for the purpose of medical education. The published reports do not follow real cases. Health professionals are invited to submit cases of educational value without HIPAA identifiers through an online form.

Medical Technology Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:06:00 +0000

Teaching with Classroom Response Systems

Website: http://derekbruff.com/teachingwithcrs/

RSS: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/TeachingWithClassroomResponseSystems

Medical Blogs of Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:32:00 +0000

Technology in Medical Education

Website: http://meducationtechnology.blogspot.com/

RSS Feed: http://meducationtechnology.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

New Biomedical Video Journal

noreply@blogger.com (Robert Lavine, PhD) — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:17:00 +0000

JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is a new peer-reviewed on-line journal now including experimental approaches in neuroscience, immunology, medicine, and functional MRI in psychology, some of which may have applications in biomedical education. Examples are Human In-Vivo Bioassay for the Tissue-Specific Measurement of Nociceptive and Inflammatory Mediators; Functional Imaging with Reinforcement, Eyetracking, and Physiological Monitoring; and Preparation and Maintenance of Dorsal Root Ganglia Neurons in Compartmented Cultures.

Website: www.jove.com/

Medical Blogs of Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:58:00 +0000

This site lists 100 Medical related blogs on a wide variety of topics. This site also lists the top 25 blogs in the Netherlands, however they are not all available in English.

Blog URL: http://medblog.nl/medblogen/
Blog RSS Feed: http://medblog.nl/feed/

Medical Education Wiki

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A great Medical Education Wiki to add to your listing of Web2.0 resources.

http://medicaleducation.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

There are three main topics discussed.

1) How do students learn
2) Classroom teaching techniques
3) Clinical teaching techniques

If you would like to have a better understanding of a Wiki first ... click here

Medpedia Going Public - Medgadget

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:02:00 +0000

Medpedia, the online project to create an authoritative online encyclopedia of all things medicine, is now available as a public beta. Unlike Wikipedia, which anyone in the world can freely edit, Medpedia's content is created by physicians and PhD's in their respective biomedical/health fields.

Medpedia Going Public - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com

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Online Learning in Clinical Skills | Medical Student Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 21:51:00 +0000

Great blog post from the medical student's perspective.

Online Learning in Clinical Skills | Medical Student Blog

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New Application for Video Clips

noreply@blogger.com (Robert Lavine, PhD) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:05:00 +0000

To update the previous post "Starting with Video Clips...", a new web-based application, though still in beta, has received praise for allowing users to integrate movie clips from YouTube and other popular media sites into their PowerPoint presentations. Called 280Slides.com, it also allows users to share presentations with colleagues without needing to download anything.

Website: http://280slides.com/

Medical Technology Blog of Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:40:00 +0000

Top 50 Genetic Blog Sites

Website: http://www.uspharmd.com/blog/2009/top-50-genetics-blogs/

Medical Technology Blog of Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:40:00 +0000

A Checklist for Designing Online Lectures and Instructional Materials

Website Link: http://bclrchecklist.edublogs.org
RSS Feed: http://bclrchecklist.edublogs.org/feed/

Medical Technology Blog of Interest

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:13:00 +0000

The Science Roll - A Medical Students Journey inside genetics and medicine through Web2.0

Website: http://scienceroll.com
RSS Feed: http://scienceroll.com/feed/

Share PowerPoints with SlideShare

noreply@blogger.com (Sharon) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 19:40:00 +0000

SlideShare is a free service that allows you to share PowerPoint presentations on the web. You can upload PowerPoint presentations as is, or add audio to them. By adding "tags" or keywords to the presentation, others will be able to discover your presentations. (You will want to be sure there is no copyrighted material in your presentation before uploading).

You can also use SlideShare to discover presentations by others in your field. For instance, if you search on "Physiology" you will get over 800 results.

Have you used SlideShare to share presentations, or discovered some useful presentations available at that site? If so, please comment!

Create Short Tutorials Easily for Free with Jing

noreply@blogger.com (Sharon) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:41:00 +0000

Have you tried Camtasia or Captivate and found them too difficult to use? If so, you may wish to look at a free tool called Jing. Jing was created by the same company that makes Camtasia and SnagIt.

With Jing, you can create a "screencast" video showing anything on your computer. The Jing website describes the process this way, "Select a window or region and Jing will record a video of everything that appears in that area. Point to things with your mouse, scroll, flip through photos, click around in a website or application...Jing captures it all."

You can add audio as well as capturing anything you would like to show on your computer. The screencasts are in Flash format, so viewers can see the screencast directly from Flash enabled browers.

The company recently released a new version called Jing Pro, which costs $14.95 a year. Jing Pro has the added advantage of uploading your screencasts directly to YouTube.

For more information, see the Jing website at http://www.jingproject.com. Jing is very easy to use, but the website also has tutorials available for getting started quickly: see http://help.jingproject.com/get-started/.

If you try Jing, please comment here on your experiences. If you used Jing successfully to build a screencast, please post a link to it!

Starting with Video Clips for Educational Presentations

noreply@blogger.com (Robert Lavine, PhD) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:03:00 +0000

The idea behind this Tech Corner blog is to introduce educational tech methods we have found useful. I am starting with video clips or animations since I would like others to try these teaching tools with less effort than I needed to get started (please skip it if you do this already). Needless to say, in this age of YouTube, video clips can get students interested, and often, if done well, can show dynamic processes more clearly than words or still images alone. I have a previous article in the JIAMSE (2005) on making and using a longer clinical case video in neurobiology and am submitting another article on brief animations and video clips inserted into MS PowerPoint slides.

An easy illustration is inserting the interactive animation "Steroid Hormones in Circulation" in a presentation on endocrine physiology, pharmacology, or biochemistry, at the address http://www.healcentral.org/content/collections/UCinReproPhys/1-5-1creditcirculation.swf on your browser. This animation shows endocrine cells secreting steroid hormones which then bind to various plasma proteins, with information on bound and free hormone concentrations on the screen. You can start with a shape on the PowerPoint slide, then use the Insert menu to insert a "Hyperlink" into the shape, and paste into the Hyperlink information screen the address to that animation running on your browser. Now when you View the slide show and that slide is displayed, clicking on the shape will display the animation.

Another good example is the "Hyperheart" animation of the cardiac cycle (like the previous example, this is found on the Project HEAL web site, from the University of Utah). It can be inserted via a Hyperlink also, with the address http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/pharm/hyper_heart1.html. This widely-reproduced animation by Dr. Don Blumenthal and the Knowledge Weavers at the University of Utah shows shows ventricular and atrial pressures and EKGs synchronized to movements of heart chambers and valves.

My preference is to show a still picture excerpted from the animation with labels-- Left Atrium, Left Ventricle, etcetera--and describe to the students what they are going to see to set the stage for the animation, in which there is a lot more going on. The Hyperlink can be inserted within the the picture of the heart or other object, so that clicking on it starts the animation.

If you have animations or video clip files in .mpg format the process is more direct since they can be inserted or linked to an image in the slide without running a web site on the browser, as long as the file is in the same folder as the PowerPoint presentation. A good example is a video clip from the web site "Introduction to Cochlear Micromechanics”, by Dennis Freeman of MIT, with the link http://umech.mit.edu/hearing/intro/intro.html. This shows animations and micro-videos of cochlear hair cell movement in response to sound. When you create the PowerPoint slides, you can copy and paste a photo of hair cell stereocilia from the web site, use the Insert menu to Insert > Movies and Sounds > Movies from File, and paste in the file name of the video. Remember that the video file needs to be saved in the same folder as the PowerPoint presentation. During the slide show, clicking on the image shows the stereocilia pivoting and opening ion channels to provide a great illustration of physiological processes in hearing on the microscopic level.

Have you used video clips and animations in basic science teaching? What do you recommend as best practices or problem areas? Sharing your experiences could help your colleagues with this powerful teaching tool.

Welcome to the IAMSE Technology Corner!

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