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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. ]]> Events cwcorn17 2007-05-03T17:33:46-08:00 http://medblog.stanford.edu/summitnews/archives/2007/05/index.html#002446 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.

Here's a list of those who presented:

Monday 3:10pm
3-Scientific Imaging
Paul Brown
Consulting
Associate Professor, Medicine

Tuesday at 8:30am
Sonification of Golf Swing Biomechanics
Jessica Rose
Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery

10:30am
Learning Technologies For the Digital Generation
LeRoy Heinrichs
Associate Director, Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technologies (SUMMIT)

Full conference details: MediaX.Stanford.edu

SUMMIT researchers led the enthusiastic audience in a hands-on demonstration of how surgeons can learn many of the basic skills needed for minimally invasive surgey. The demonstration featured LapSim, a product designed by SUMMIT team members in conjunction with Surgical Science, a Swedish company that provides tools for training medical professionals.

Almost 60 future surgeons used the interactive 3-D interface, learning surgical tasks tasks including coordination of laparoscopic tools, grasping, cutting, clipping, and suction. A few even tried the gall bladder surgery scenario on the virtual patient. Several future medical students came back multiple times, asking for tougher challenges.

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The new software also features comprehensive image analysis with new image measurement and counting tools, as well as MATLAB integration. The software will be available April 20th, 2007.

Certificates given to:
Parvati Dev, SUMMIT
Steve Senger, SUMMIT
Robert Cheng, SUMMIT
Margaret Krebs, SUMMIT

Project website: http://ianatomy.stanford.edu