September 2006 Archives

September 15, 2006

Dr. Ganapathy visits SUMMIT

Dr K Ganapathy from Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, India came to visit SUMMIT on 9/12/06. He is interested in finding out which of the technologies available at Stanford could be readily used at the hospital in Chennai.

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Case-Ex runs study week of 9/11

The case-ex project lead by Dr. Neil Gesundheit and staffed at SUMMIT by Pat Youngblood and Pauline Brutlag continues running study sessions for the pilot phase of the project this week. Case-Ex aims to determine the feasibility of supplementing Standardized Patients (actors portraying patients), the current gold standard for clinical exams, with a web-based patient simulator, Web-SP.

Web-SP is a software package developed by our collaborators Uno Fors and Nabil Zary (and others) at Karolinska institue in Sweden. Below is a screenshot showing the patient interview section of a patient case.

Initial study results from a randomized cross-over pilot study of second year medical students show that using an online patient case may produce valid results. For the patient interview section of the exam, there is a suggestion of a significant correlation betweena students results on the Standardized Patient exam and the Case-Ex exam using the virtual patient. In addition, Case-Ex exam results for the patient interview section show a normal distribution. Student acceptance of this new mode of testing was high. These results will be presented at AMEE and e-Learn conferences later this fall.

The question we are exploring now is to see if there are differences in these results, and in student acceptance, between second year medical students and fourth year medical students. These most recent study sessions are gathering data for the fourth years. Initial results show that student acceptance of this mode of testing is much lower for fourth year medical students.

Stayed tuned for more, as results will be analyzed in the coming months!

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SUMMIT Program Manager shifts roles

Starting September 1 I began in my new role as Manager of Program Development for International Health. I will continue at SUMMIT on the Case-Ex and Measles projects but my home base will now be in my new office at CHP/PCOR, 117 Encina Commons. Please come visit!

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September 08, 2006

Photo Blogging with Flickr

I have created a text tutorial on how to create blog posts using your flickr pictures in just twelve steps! Read on for details.

Step 1: Sign into your Flickr account. Create an account if you don't have one. It's great fun to share your photos and to explore those of others.

Step 2: After you have uploaded your images, you can choose one to create a blog entry about.

Step 3: Before you can start bloggin your photos you need to add a blog. Scroll down to the bottom of any Flickr page and adjust 'your account' settings.

Step 4: Choose the uploading by email option. You would use email but you will use the 'Upload to Blog' option.

Step 5: Click on the 'here' of the 'Upload to Blog?'

Step 6: The next page will allow you to set up a blog to use. In this case I had a blog set up already so I choose the 'set up another blog to use here' link.

Step 7: Choose the Movable Type Blog for the type of weblog.

Step 8: Enter "http://medblog.stanford.edu" for the 'MT cgi-bin' part of the form. Be sure to enter your username and password you use to log into The SUMMIT News and Events Blog.

Step 9: Flickr will automatically pull the correct information from the blog IF you have entered the correct username and password. You should now choose store password so it doesn't keep asking you for when you make posts.

Now your ready to start Photo Blogging! Step 10: Select an image from your 'photostream' and choose the "BLOG THIS" button. (Please Note: This blogging option doesn't appear for mac firefox users at this point. Use Safari for now. Sorry!) Choose the "SUMMIT News and Events" blog.

Step 11: Get creative! Write a description or a witty retort. Be sure NOT to be obscure in your title. This may be the only way to find this post once it's more than a month old with a simple keyword search. Also it will be indexed by search engines better.

Step 12: Hit the post entry button and your are done! You should be taken to a confirmation page. You also might want to check how the entry looks on the SUMMIT News and Events Blog.

Posted by kwillis at 05:35 PM

3D Scan of Kingsley

This is the textured wireframe view of me after I was scanned using the 3dMD scanning rig. The camera rig consists of 6 cameras and 3 flashes. It only takes an instant to capture, like you would a normal photo. Then the software goes to work and within 1 minute or so it creates a textured mesh of you face! The main application of this is for cosmetic surgery before and after comparisons, but I can think of some special effects and gaming applications as well. A special thanks goes out to Robert Cheng who helped me aqurie this.

Posted by kwillis at 05:34 PM

Immersive Medical Telepresence workshop

Parvati Dev talked about immersive approaches to anatomy learning at the Immersive Medical Telepresence workshop at Phoenix, Sept 6-7. The workshop included a very convincing futuristic demo of the next generation of videoconferencing, life size video and spatial audio, for immersive presence for health care. The talks are at http://events.internet2.edu/2006/IMT/agenda.html

Workshop attendees included staff from Internet2, the Research Channel, the SURA VIDE group, NTT (Japan), vendors, and others interested in high definition video and interactive video over broadband networks. The meeting was held at the Barrow Nerological Institute, who presented the demo described above.

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September 07, 2006

SUMMIT visits Garfield Center

SUMMIT members toured Kaiser Permanente's new Sidney Garfield Health Care Innovation Center in San Leandro, CA. The new facility is being used to prototype designs for Kaiser's new medical centers.

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September 01, 2006

SUMMIT & EdTech train Anatomy TAs

This year the Stanford Anatomy students will be using a unique collection of dissection images of preserved cadaveric material. Over 1500 high resolution stereoscopic images were prepared in the 50's by a Stanford anatomist, Dr. David Bassett in collaboration with William Gruber, the inventor of the Viewmaster, the toy you may have owned as a kid. Stanford students have free access to this collection.

At the request of Dr. Larry Mathers, we will be training the TAs to use the collection to select appropriate images. The TAs will then incorporate the images into their weekly small group review sessions. In addition the stereo images will be available for self-study from the rooms in CCSR adjacent to the Anatomy Lab.

Posted by mkrebs at 12:22 PM | Comments (0)

Surgical Simulation Workshop for surgeons & software developers

Over 25 surgeons and software developers participated in Rapid Prototyping of Surgical Simulators using Open Source Simulation Software, held at Stanford University on August 28-30, 2006. Technical experts presented overviews and details of five publicly available open source simulation packages, including SPRING, GiPSi, CHAI3D, SOFA, and VRASS.

See the Sim Workshops page for more details.

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Welcome to SUMMIT News and Events!

SUMMIT is proud to announce the launch of this new tool for announcement of news and events. Here our staff will post: major project announcements, visits from SUMMIT friends and collaborators, upcoming workshops, staffing changes, publications, related events and more!

SUMMITeers - please visit the SUMMIT wiki for details on how to use this new tool.

SUMMIT is a research and development lab dedicated to being at the forefront of medical and health education through the innovative use of information technology. We achieve this through research and curricular project development; working in national and international partnerships with faculty, students, industry, government, NGO's and other academic research groups. We look forward with sharing our news and events with you!

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