How To Create A Free Online Radiology Tutorial Program

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1 Interactive radiology tutorials - self made! Poster No.: C-1129 Congress: ECR 2013 Type: Educational Exhibit Authors: R. Talanow; Lincoln, CA/US Keywords: Computer applications, Anatomy, Image manipulation / Reconstruction, Education, elearning, Computer ApplicationsGeneral, Education and training DOI: /ecr2013/C-1129 Any information contained in this pdf file is automatically generated from digital material submitted to EPOS by third parties in the form of scientific presentations. References to any names, marks, products, or services of third parties or hypertext links to thirdparty sites or information are provided solely as a convenience to you and do not in any way constitute or imply ECR's endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party, information, product or service. ECR is not responsible for the content of these pages and does not make any representations regarding the content or accuracy of material in this file. As per copyright regulations, any unauthorised use of the material or parts thereof as well as commercial reproduction or multiple distribution by any traditional or electronically based reproduction/publication method ist strictly prohibited. You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold ECR harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, costs, and expenses, including attorneys' fees, arising from or related to your use of these pages. Please note: Links to movies, ppt slideshows and any other multimedia files are not available in the pdf version of presentations. Page 1 of 19

2 Learning objectives To offer a program that allows creating easily interactive radiology tutorials, is available online and is free to use. Background The Internet becomes increasingly a source of information for medical professionals and offers educators a platform to distribute their training material to an audience that may be local or distributed to remote areas of this world. However, creating didactic material and presenting it in an efficient way is still difficult, time elaborate and often also expensive. A program is desired that allows creating easily interactive radiology tutorials, is available online and is free to use. Imaging findings OR Procedure details This free online program allows anybody to create their own radiology tutorials. A three step approach makes the creation of that tutorial easy: create a tutorial, create chapters for the respective tutorial and create pages for the respective chapter (figures 1-4). The user may add multimedia to the tutorial and - what is unique - also entire image stacks which can be viewed as on the radiologist's workstation with features such as scroll, window/level, pan, zoom (figure 5). The program provides predefined categories (e.g. organ and modality based) to make an assignment of contents as easy as a click of a mouse button. A quiz can be also implemented to test the impact of the tutorial on the user's performance (figure6). How does it work? Please go on and click on the respective link or log on directly to - an international Radiology community for education. Under "Education & Research" you will find a tab for Tutorials. Ther you find the tutorials creator. As a member of Radiolopolis you can immediately start creating your own tutorials. Page 2 of 19

3 You can either create immediately a new tutorial or review and edit your previously created tutorials (figure 1). Fig. 1: You can either create immediately a new tutorial or review and edit your previously created tutorials. References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US With one mouse click you can create your tutorial. You may add a description, a tutorial image, a few related website links etc. (figure 2) Page 3 of 19

4 Fig. 2: Create a tutorial with one mouse click References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US Your tutorials can be accessed and edited at any time (figure 3). Page 4 of 19

5 Fig. 3: Edit your tutorials at any time References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US You and other users may browse through your and other's tutorials (figure 4). Page 5 of 19

6 Fig. 4: Users can browse through all available tutorials References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US The tutorials can be read page by page, chapter for chapter, browsed, listed by diagnosis, imaging modalities, automatic retrieval of latest publications (figure 5). Page 6 of 19

7 Fig. 5: Tutorials can be read page by page, chapter for chapter, browsed, listed by diagnosis, imaging modalities, automatic retrieval of latest publications References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US A unique feature is the capability to scroll through entire image stacks which can be viewed as on the radiologist's workstation with features such as scroll, window/level, pan, zoom (figure 6). Page 7 of 19

8 Fig. 6: Entire image stacks can be viewed as on the radiologist's workstation with features such as scroll, window/level, pan, zoom. References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US A quiz (pre and post test) can be also implemented to test the impact of the tutorial on the user's performance (figure 7). Page 8 of 19

9 Fig. 7: A quiz can be also implemented to test the impact of the tutorial on the user's performance. References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US An extra feature allows to export the tutorial into external websites, as seen on (Export needs some customization, thus please contact author if desired) Page 9 of 19

10 Fig. 8: RadiologyTutorials.com offers free Radiology tutorials, some of them created by this online tutorial creator. References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US In summary, this online program helps to: Create easily tutorials - with one mouse click Add as many chapters/subchapters/pages as wished Edit contents at any time with instant effect Integrate multimedia to pages Users can read tutorial like a book or browse through contents or search by keyword Listing by diagnosis, imaging modality, plane etc. Export functions for distribution of teaching material Automatic display of latest topic related publications Integration into a large Radiology community (>10,000 members) for sharing with a large audience. Free to use Images for this section: Page 10 of 19

11 Fig. 1: You can either create immediately a new tutorial or review and edit your previously created tutorials. Page 11 of 19

12 Fig. 2: Create a tutorial with one mouse click Page 12 of 19

13 Fig. 3: Edit your tutorials at any time Fig. 4: Users can browse through all available tutorials Page 13 of 19

14 Fig. 5: Tutorials can be read page by page, chapter for chapter, browsed, listed by diagnosis, imaging modalities, automatic retrieval of latest publications Page 14 of 19

15 Fig. 6: Entire image stacks can be viewed as on the radiologist's workstation with features such as scroll, window/level, pan, zoom. Page 15 of 19

16 Fig. 7: A quiz can be also implemented to test the impact of the tutorial on the user's performance. Page 16 of 19

17 Conclusion We provide a program that allows easily creating online radiology tutorials, allows interactivity with the trainee, performance check and is free to use. References 1. Radiolopolis - The international Radiology community for education, research and practice. URL: 2. Radiology Tutorials. URL: 3. OnCallRadiology - Common emergency radiology findings on call. URL: Chest Radiology - A Web Tutorial for Chest Anatomy and Lung Malignancies. URL: Personal Information Fig. 8: RadiologyTutorials.com offers free Radiology tutorials, some of them created by this online tutorial creator. References: Radiology, InnoMed - Lincoln/US For more information please contact Roland Talanow, MD, PhD at programs@talanow.info Images for this section: Page 17 of 19

18 Fig. 8: RadiologyTutorials.com offers free Radiology tutorials, some of them created by this online tutorial creator. Page 18 of 19

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