About Slice of Life 2001

About Slice of Life/CHES

View many colorful action photos from the 2001 SOL conference in Munich!

http://sol.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de
http://www.intermed.dk/sol2001/

If you have additional conference photos and/or text that you would like to post on the website, please email them to Marc Batschkus at bat@ibe.med.uni-muenchen.de.

The Slice of Life Workshop and Computers in Healthcare Education Symposium (SOL/CHES) will head overseas to the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany, on July 31 - August 4, 2001.  Click here to view  SOL/CHES 2001 conference program information online.  Click here to view the printed (PDF) version of the conference program.   Pack your bags and put on your traveling shoes if you are interested in:

  • Integrating computer-based training (CBT) into medical education
  • New methods and techniques for supporting the teaching of medicine
  • Planning, building or operating computer or multimedia facilities for medical education
  • Developing and programming medical learning software

The major themes of SOL/CHES 2001 include:

  • CBT and reform of curricula in medical education
  • Information exchange and cooperative work on multi-site web-based training and more
  • New trends and technologies
  • Evidence-based education

LECTURES: Featuring invited speakers and selected presentations, where you can benefit from the view points of experienced specialists in a problem-solving, cooperative atmosphere

WORKSHOPS: Hands-on pre-workshop tutorials, where you can learn new multimedia techniques from an international group of experts

SHOW & TELL DEMONSTRATIONS: Meet the creators of innovative software solutions

SOCIAL EVENTS: Great company, delicious food and drink, and the Grand Extravaganza, "Chiemsee"

plus...Tutorials, Posters, Panels and Breakout Sessions!

SOL/CHES launched at the Eccles Library at the University of Utah in 1988, and has traveled annually to locations including Vancouver, Copenhagen, Chicago, Tampa, Philadelphia and Salt Lake City.  Click here to view SOL/CHES conference information from years past. 

SOL/CHES 2001 is organized by the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich in cooperation with the following institutions: 

Visit this website often for more details as they evolve, BUT MARK THE DATES on your calendar.

WHAT IS THE " SLICE OF LIFE" WORKSHOP?


The group began as users of the "Slice of Life" videodisc. (For more information see the Slice of Life videodisc web site.) We like the name, we still use the resource to grab images! For the past ten years, developers of medical multimedia and interested new-comers get together to share ideas:

    1. Hear and see new technology for medical/health applications.
    2. Demo new multimedia teaching programs they've made/bought/sell.
    3. Share innovations for the WWW, distance ed and asynchronous learning.
    4. Attend demonstrations or hands-on "Pre-Conference" Workshops.
    5. Acknowledge and encourage student participation with the award of a $1000.00 cash prize for the most outstanding student project.
    6. Demonstrate the tools, programs and projects they have been working on.
    7. Discuss strategies for getting new technologies incorporated into the curriculum.
    8. Share software and ideas, problems and solutions.
    9. Share evaluation data.
    10. Meet others with similar interests with whom they can network throughout the year.

WHAT IS THE COMPUTERS IN HEALTHCARE EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM?


For ten years, Thomas Jefferson University hosted a spring symposium sponsored by the Health Sciences Library Consortium and Commercial Vendors such as Apple and IBM. The last symposium at TJU was in April, 1997. Beginning with June, 1998, TJU and the organizers of the Slice of Life Workshop decided to combine the meetings. The programs from past meetings provide a glimpse of the types of activities and presentations that occur at the conference.

This is one of the few places where developers and evaluators of computer assisted learning in healthcare gather to network and share ideas. The workshop is deliberately limited.

Past Meetings:

Slice of Life / CHES 2000 - Salt Lake City

Archive Website: www.slice.gsm.com/2000/index.html

WHO ARE THE KNOWLEDGE WEAVERS?


The Knowledge Weavers team includes information management specialists, Web programmers and designers, and multimedia production artists.  Their goal is to provide health sciences educators with high quality, Web-based multimedia resources that can be used for a variety of educational purposes.  With a grant from NLM, many projects have been undertaken for educational use by anyone.  Sharon Dennis at the University of Utah Eccles Health Sciences Library has for the past several years continued the tradition of producing some of the pre-conference workshops. Learn more about them at the Knowledge Weavers website.

WHY IS GOLD STANDARD MULTIMEDIA HOSTING THE WEBSITE AND HANDLING THE REGISTRATION?


In 1997, Suzanne Stensaas was about to say "no more Slices of Life". It took too much time and energy. Marianne Messer and others from Gold Standard Multimedia were at the 1997 Chicago meeting and found it so exciting that they said, "we could help you do this in Tampa in 1998". The 1998 Slice of Life / CHES collaboration was so successful that we decided to let the "pros" continue to mount the web site and handle the registration and many of the logistics. We feel very fortunate to have collaborators who, incidentally, also happen to be vendors of multimedia medical education products! This meeting is not designed to push their products, but they will be more than happy to show them to you and explain their value.

Website Content: Suzanne Stensaas and Marianne Messer
Website Design and Maintenance: Evelyn Manak and Jennifer Edwards

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

  • Suzanne Stensaas, Salt Lake City, USA
  • Martin Fischer, Munich, Germany
  • Marc M. Batschkus, Munich, Germany
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  • Marianne Messer, Tampa, USA
  • Joe Henderson, Hanover, USA
  • Rodney B. Murray, Philadelphia, USA
  • Roger Kneebone, London, UK
  • Humphrey Gyde, Oxford, UK
  • Andrew Booth, York, UK
  • L. Schuhwirth, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • Jens Dørup, Aarhus, Denmark
  • Ole Winding, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Christof Daetwyler, Bern, Switzerland
  • Ulrich Woermann, Bern, Switzerland
  • Göran Petersson, Lund, Sweden
  • Oleg Medwedev, Moscow, Russia
  • Jiri Schindler, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Pardo Mindán, Pamplona, Spain
  • M. Lischka, Vienna, Austria
  • R. März, Vienna, Austria
  • Richard Wagner, Giessen, Germany
  • Franz-Josef Leven, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Reinhard Putz, Munich, Germany
  • Florian Eitel, Munich, Germany
  • Klaus Maag, Munich, Germany
  • Hal Lyon, Manchester, USA and Munich, Germany

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