1. The Next Half-Millennium
    of Anatomy Education

    Robert Stephenson

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  2. The Last 2.5 Millenia of Anatomical Education

  3. Summary

    Medical knowledge and tools have undergone a revolutionary expansion in the last decades. Medical education, however, has not changed greatly in the half-millennium since Vesalius. What might MedEd 2.0 look like and - more important - how do we get there from here?

    Hint: the answer involves collaboration and sharing.

  4. Growth of MedLine in 30 Years

    chart: growth of Medline

  5. ICT is a Better Tool

  6. Dynamics: the Skeletal Muscle Power Stroke

  7. Visualization: OsiriX (demo)

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/osirix OsiriX screenshot

  8. Experiential Learning: The SodaPlay Applet

  9. Teaching as a Cottage Industry is Doomed

    • The centuries-old model is broken
    • Historical Examples:
      • Weavers in 19th Century England
      • Doctors today

  10. Two Competing Paradigms

    • Closed, proprietary and commercial
    • Open, collaborative and communal

  11. Proprietary Examples

    • Vesalius
    • A.D.A.M. Interactive Anatomy

  12. Open Examples in Medicine

    • Journals: OpenMedicine, PLoS Medicine
    • Digital Libraries: HEAL, NSDL.org
    • OpenCourseWare (MIT, JHU, etc.)
    • the Harvey Project

  13. The Harvey Project

    Sir Wm. Harvey poster for the movie Harvey

    http://harveyproject.org

  14. Open Course Principles

    • Freedom to use material for teaching and self-study.
    • Freedom to redistribute material to help others.
    • Freedom to adapt material for your students' needs.
    • Freedom to release improvements, so entire community benefits.
    • Obligation to contribute back to the community.

  15. The Open Source/Free
    Software Example


    		Open Source
    		Open Course
    Practitioners
    software engineers, etc.
    professors, etc.
    Metric
    lines of code
    e-learning pages
    Community
    Values
    collaboration &
    sharing
    collaboration &
    sharing (e.g. science)
    Economics
    flat salary +
    reputation economy
    flat salary +
    reputation economy

  16. What's at Stake

    Who controls medical education determines its purpose, and the purpose of medicine itself.

  17. What Is the Goal of Anatomical Education?

    • Learn anatomy? Which? How thoroughly?
    • Pass medical boards?
    • Kill fewer patients?
    • Critical thinking?
    • Learning to learn?

  18. Whom do you teach?

    • Current students only?
    • Graduates for life?
    • Third World students?
    • Are you responsible for public health?

  19. OpenCourse.org Collaboration Platform

    • Collaboration services for content developers
    • Free Web hosting for open course collaborations
    • Tools for joint work at a distance
    • Go from concept to collaboration in <30 minutes
    • 1100 members working in 46 collaboratories

  20. Let's Get Started

    Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
    • H.G. Wells


    It is not necessary to learn. Survival is not mandatory.
    • W.Edwards Deming (misquoted)

  21. About This Presention: S5

    • S5 stands for Simple Standards-based Slide Show System
    • The presentation runs in a browser and is based on open standards. Consequently it can include Flash, Java applets, SVG, MathML and other good stuff.
    • One XHTML document provides all of the presentation's content except for images, applets and Flash files.
    • CSS style sheets set the layout and look of the slides, while JavaScript handles the dynamic aspects of the show

  22. S5 Browser Presentations

  23. Credits

    Muscle Power Stroke Animation (slide 5)
    - Michael Stewart, the Harvey Project
    Sodaplay Applet (slide 7)
    - Soda Creative Technologies Ltd., Sodaplay.com

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