June 02, 2008

Display Wall returns to SUMMIT

After a successful series of demos and teaching sessions in M230, the Display Wall has been moved back to SUMMIT. More details on the project can be found here

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SUMMIT hosts Gastroenterology session

The first of four international Gastroenterology videoconferencing sessions was held on May 29th. The sites involved were: Stanford (VA Hospital), Kyoto and Kyushu Universities in Japan, and Hanyang University in Korea. The videoconferencing software used was DVTS, which allowed us to share surgical video at DV quality.

Posted by alief at 09:23 AM

SUMMIT mentioned in Forrester Report on Web3D

Members of SUMMIT were interviewed and quoted in the April Forrester Report on 'Web3D: The Next Major Internet Wave'.
More information can be found here: http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,45257,00.html

Posted by alief at 09:17 AM

November 13, 2007

SUMMIT at Super Computing 2007: Day One

SUMMIT's Digial Mummy appears on Reno Local television:
http://www.ktvn.com/Global/category.asp?C=90452&nav=menu549_1

Posted by kwillis at 03:02 PM

November 12, 2007

SUMMIT at Super Computing 2007

SUMMIT presents high resolution images and video on a 5 by 5 Apple display floor at Super Computing 2007 beginning Monday, November 12th 2007. To view the images and video that is presented visit this page daily: http://summit.stanford.edu/gallery/sc07.html

Posted by kwillis at 10:52 AM

November 01, 2007

Parvati Dev Leaves SUMMIT and Stanford

After 18 years at Stanford, Parvati Dev has decided to leave SUMMIT (Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies) to pursue her personal interests (see the statement from Dr. David Gaba). Among these interests is her new activity as chief scientist at Innovation in learning, Inc, a newly formed learning and development company bringing innovative online learning environments to global education. See a retrospective of her work, which impacted many at Stanford and elsewhere, at http://parvati.stanford.edu/. Parvati can be reached at her personal address parvati at parvatidev dot org.

Read on for a word from Dr. Gaba...

Continue reading "Parvati Dev Leaves SUMMIT and Stanford"

Posted by kwillis at 12:01 PM

August 27, 2007

Parvati Dev at National Library of Medicine (NLM)

Parvati Dev will be webcast discussing the HAVnet (Haptic Audio Visual Network for Education & Training) project on Tuesday, August 28th at 4:00 pm EDT. She will give an overview of the results of four years of work by SUMMIT and its national and international collaborators. The presentation will discuss our work on scalable, network aware, real-time technology applications in health education. She will describe these high-bandwidth medical education applications and the testbeds for Clinical Anatomy and Clinical Skills that were created in order to demonstrate and evaluate their use in teaching and learning environments.

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June 01, 2007

SUMMIT Conducts Virtual CPR Study

On June 1st, a virtual CPR study was conducted with 24 students from Woodside high school. Six students at a time met in the 3D virtual world created together with Forterra Inc. This video highlights the type of CPR skills that are being evaluated.

Watch Video

Right-click (Win), or Ctrl-click or click-and-hold (Mac) on the "Download File" links to find command closest to "Save" or "Download" the "Link" or "Target." Save file to your intended local folder.

Here are the results of the questionaire that was completed by over 35 Woodside high school students: Questionaire Results Spreadsheet [MS Excel file]

Posted by kwillis at 12:48 PM

May 03, 2007

Daughters and Sons learn medicine & practice surgery at SUMMIT

SUMMIT was one of the many campus areas hosting young people at the annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, held April 26. SUMMIT members Dr. Parvati Dev, Dr. LeRoy Heinrichs, Robert Cheng, and Dr. Craig Cornelius lead this enthusiastic group of future MDs in a busy morning of learning by doing. SUMMIT Director Dev was just wrapping up an international video conference — consulting with a Pakistani colleague in the middle of the night there — when the dozen students arrived for "Move Over X-Box — Virtual Surgeries are Here." Dr. Dev first explained how SUMMIT's Collab connects doctors, researchers, students and instructors from all over the globe.

Doctors need to understand the human body and the complex 3-D relationships of its parts, so off the virtual anatomy lab we went. Students grabbed stereo glasses for high technology anatomy lessons, examining 3-D dissections from the 1950s, then moving to SUMMIT's modern interactive tools to explore components of the hand and skull. Accessing these media over the internet, any medical school can offer virtual classrooms where students and teachers may be in different timezones or distant continents.

Next, Robert lead the group in interviewing a virtual patient using the Interactive Standard Patient (ISP) program. Learning how to plan effective questions and perform a physical examination, the young doctors-in-training found that diagnosis requires high-touch physician-patient interaction in addition to high-tech tests and laboratory results. The group then split into three for hands-on experience with three of SUMMIT's simulations for learning, each group rotating through all three stations.

Dr. Heinrichs introduced the students to surgical techniques through LapSim(tm), a computer-based surgical simulation for training doctors in basic surgical skills. LapSim also includes as several realistic surgical procedures, such as a gall bladder dissection. Students learned how minimally invasive surgery differs from open surgery procedures. Then each had a try at learning the hand-eye coordination and smooth control of the surgical instruments using this realistic training system. As Dr. Heinrichs noted, in real surgery "You can't say Oops!", highlighting the value of surgeons learning their trade by practicing on a patient who can be revised with the reset button.

In SUMMIT's Collab, another group was exploring a virtual world to learn team skills needed in emergency medicine. (It looks suspiciously like Stanford's ER.) Similar to some on-line interactive video games, each student played a role such as doctor, administrator, patient, and EMT. Navigating their characters' avatars through the corridors and procedures, they experienced some of the real-life team management issues that medical personnel face every day.

To literally "get a feel" for surgery and anatomy, everyone lent a hand to a simulated gall bladder operation with the ReachIn program. Clicking to remove outer layers of skin, fat, and muscle, students probed, prodded, and pulled on simulated tissues, experiencing active force feedback, technically called haptics. This advanced interface enhances the immediacy of the training and readily shows differences in tissue that are not apparent to the eye. Much was learned, but we are all happy that this patient has an "oops" button!

For a summary of this and other activities of the day, visit the Stanford Report article.

Posted by cwcorn17 at 05:33 PM

SUMMIT hosts delgation from St. Petersburg

The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!

On April 18, SUMMIT hosted a delegation of over 60 educators from St. Petersburg State University for a 2 hour tour and demonstration of SUMMIT technology. This was part of their 4 day visit to Stanford, sponsored by the Stanford Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREES). The group was here to learn how information technology (IT) is used in management and teaching at Stanford and to develop a vision of an IT upgrade at their own univesrsity.

Interested in technology as it relates to education in its broadest sense, the group experienced enhanced medical education through media and information technologies developed through SUMMIT's research programs and collaborations.

Dividing the group into 3 rotations, SUMMIT Staff Dr. LeRoy Heinrichs, Dr. Pat Youngblood, Dr. Craig Cornelius, Robert Cheng, Dr. Sean Kung, Mari Keift, and Maria Sandberg offered live demonstrations and active participation in:

• Virtual Worlds: simulation technology for healthcare workers learn while interacting with colleagues and patient-actors over the Internet, in real time. See for more information.
  


• Interactive Simulated Patientin which a student practices the taking a clinical history, completing physical examination, ordering laboratory and imaging tests, and selecting a diagnosis.
  


• SUMMIT's Collab, an experimental space to study the impact of new collaboration technologies and new teaching methods on medical education of the future.
  


• iAnatomy, featuring stereo 3-D on-line viewing of anatomic dissections from the Bassett Collection, on-line multi-site learning via Remote Stereo Viewer (RSV), and interactive 3-D models of hand and skull anatomy.
  


• Surgical Simulation. Visitors had the opportunity to try virtual surgery using the LapSim skills simulator.
  

Using 4 conference rooms, the groups traversed all three floors of the Medical School Office Building (MSOB), so that each rotation group could join in the interactive demonstrations. Translators were present in each session, and many thoughtful, insightful questions and comments were posed to the SUMMIT staff.

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