from the Eh..-what's-up,-doc-and-doc-and-doc-and... dept.
London hospital starts virtual ward rounds for medical students
A flock of students stumbling after a consultant on a ward round has long been a familiar sight in hospitals. Perhaps not for much longer though – a university has pioneered the use of augmented reality to allow students to take part from home.
Imperial College has conducted what it said is the world’s first virtual ward round for medical students, which means an entire class of 350 students can watch a consultant examining patients rather than the three or four who have been able to accompany them in person.
The virtual ward round involves the physician wearing Microsoft’s HoloLens glasses, which stream video to the students’ computers. While the doctor talks to the patient, students can hear both of them through the use of two microphones.
Teachers are able to pin virtual pictures to the display, such as X-rays, drug charts or radiographs, or draw lines to highlight something they want to emphasise.
[...] The virtual ward rounds can be recorded, allowing universities to create a library of cases. That means more students will get to see patients with rare conditions and have a better understanding of the symptoms and how the patient acts.
(Score: 1) by Zinnia Zirconium on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:33PM (2 children)
Haha! Can I earn an MD by staying home and watching medical dramas now?! It's the same thing as real medical students are doing, right?? Hands on experience is so overrated.
(Score: 3, Touché) by fadrian on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:19PM
Agreed. I think you have to watch all seasons of House and Marcus Welby MD to become licensed, though.
That is all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @08:20PM
When med students visited my 3rd surgery post op room... I knew the answer to a question posed to medical students that they didn't know. I never took a class, learned it from tv.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @07:44PM (2 children)
Aristarchus' plan for tonight.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:03PM (1 child)
Get serious. Aristarchus will zoom bomb the pediatrics wards. He has little use for females, and certainly no use for mature females.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:16PM
Was the proctology ward full? It's next door to the erectile dysfunction clinic.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday July 05 2020, @09:01PM
Yeah, there are a lot of things you can learn from books. Or DIY videos. Or even from tele-lecturers from Phoenix University.
But, some things, you have to get your hands into. Along with your ears, your nose, and all the rest of your sensory organism. Can someone tell me why the doctor always tries to stick a finger into your groin when he's looking for a hernia? Because you can't tell by LOOKING!! Same with the proctologist wanting to stick a finger (or something) up your anus. Ladies, do you want your gynocologist to be a graduate of Internet School of Medicine?
Did I mention other sensory organs? Smell that smell! What a deal if your doctor, a fresh grad of Intartubal Med School gets a whiff of your weeks-long festering wound, and vomits before passing out.
Oh yeah - BLOOD. Doc walks into the ER, and the patient is bleeding profusely - so HE passes out! It's just not the same as he watched on his computer monitor.
And, the sound. The patient hasn't been sedated when Doc arrives, patient is moaning, screaming, and cursing. And, Doc says, "I can't think!! I never had to listen to anything like this at home, in front of my computer!"
Simply speaking, there is no profession that is so demanding during training, as being a physician, unless it's some of the specialties. There are time-tested reasons for it to be so demanding. Every life lost to some idiot who thought he could be a doctor is one more reason.
Keep the computer techs away from the medical profession. This is one place they can only screw things up worse than they are.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 05 2020, @10:06PM
It's like pornhub for sex education.
On a second thought, even pornhub for sex education may be better than this ... edumacation.