May 03, 2007
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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