DEMONSTRATION

Interactive Medical Multimedia: A Case Based Approach to Health Professional

James DíAgostino, MD and Michael Touhey, M.S., M.Ed. Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY

ABSTRACT:

While the majority of residency programs use didactic lectures to teach their residents and medical students, at the Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY we have developed a multimedia digital library to bring patient cases into the classroom. Multimedia presentation of patient disorders enhances medical profession education and training by exposing the learner to actual patient encounters. Traditional medical training utilizes didactic lectures with static images and content slides and actual patient encounters at the bedside. In the short term the learner may not have the exposure to a large variety of patient disorders. Exposing health professionals to a wide range of patient disorders in a case-driven multimedia format has the potential for enhancing training in the short term.

In this first instructional module of a series, pediatric respiratory disorders were captured on video and combined with animation elements and anatomical drawings. This first unit focuses on disorders of the upper respiratory system and presents patient cases in the following sequence: anatomical landmarks; disease states; case presentations and diagnostic and management schemes. Future modules in this series will use the same presentation format.

BENEFIT TO PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING SESSION:

1. Appreciate an alternative mode of instructional delivery of case-based medical training to meet the needs of a diverse target audience of medical and allied health professionals.

2. Provide participants a view into producing a multimedia-teaching tool for educating medical personnel.

James DíAgostino, MD 750 E. Adams St. Dept. of Emergency Medicine Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315-464-6235 Fax: 315-464-6229 mailto:dagostinj@upstate.edu

CO-AUTHORS: Michael Touhey, M.S., M.Ed. Educational Communications Department Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY 13210 Phone: 315-464-8561 Fax: Fax - 315-464-4860 mailto:touheym@upstate.edu