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  alexandregouveia 09:48 on 16/04/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Child care, Empowerment (4), Virtual Worlds (3), Web 2.0 (10)   

  Medicine Made Easy 

  Engaging kids in healthcare can be one of the many hard tasks of a health professional, but surely one of the most rewarding.

  Nowadays, creating technologic platforms for health education is more than an alternative; it’s mandatory.

  This is certainly going in that direction: Medikidz - medical information for kids!

  

  The 5 Medikidz – Axon, Gastro, Skinderella, Pump and Chi – are a “group of larger-than-life. space-dwelling characters” that live on a 3D virtual world, a planet called Mediland and shaped as the human body. By using graphic novels, medicine information pamphlets, an online information edutainment environment, online games, and of course, social networking, the Medikidz are determined to explain medical concepts in a simple and understandable way, empowering children and their parents. Everything starting in next July.

  

  

  

  This is the 3D view of the Stomach Room with some food in it.

  Will it be possible for grown-up docs to pay a visit? I would love to take a journey trough Mediland and remind those days of “Il était une fois la vie”.

  More information:

  Facebook – Medikidz Foundation

  E-Health Europe: World’s first kid’s medical website announced

  Habbo – Medikidz group

  Ribs Susiaho, alexandregouveia, and DrV are discussing. Toggle Comments

   
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    DrV 21:36 on 16/04/2009 Permalink | Reply

    This is interesting. I have thought of using endoscopy videos as a means of teaching kids about the gut.

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    alexandregouveia 22:38 on 16/04/2009 Permalink | Reply

    Thanks for your comment,

    I think we should use all the possible means to help kids understand the human body; endoscopy videos could be interesting in deed.

    Best regards,

    Alex.

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    Ribs Susiaho 08:29 on 17/04/2009 Permalink | Reply

    Glad you like the look of our forthcoming website and virtual world! In answer to your question – yes of course grown-ups can visit too

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  alexandregouveia 01:15 on 12/04/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Family Medicine (12), NHS (5), Personal Health Records (4), Primary Health Care (7), Web 2.0 (10)   

  Jay Parkinson: what primary care should be 

  If you have never heard this name before, don’t worry: better late than never.

  

  Jay Parkinson, @jayparkinson, author of the jay parkinson + md + mph blog and a health 2.0 revolutionizer, presented hellohealth in June 2008, a social network between patients and doctors that steps aside from the US healthcare insurance companies and their dense billing system. Although a little focused on an economist point of view, this video from Jay presents the way that primary care should be on the 21st century: personalized and citizen centered healthcare based on a high usage of the communication technologies.

  Is this is the doctor-patient relationship 2.0 ? Probably yes.

  Ladies and gentlemen, Jay Parkinson.

  More information:

  Scienceroll: Jay Parkinson and Hello Health

  Jay Parkinson MD website

   
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  alexandregouveia 22:07 on 05/04/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Knowledge Management, Twitter (8), WebCite   

  How to cite tweets 

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  Twitter is not only a social phenomena. Its influence in education and knowledge management is exceeding boundaries.

  But imagine you want to use something you read in a tweet… How could you cite it in your paper?

  Gunter Eysenbach, @eysenbach, recommendes the use of WebCite in creating a reference like this one:

  Eysenbach G (03-04-2009). wondering about how to archive my tweets (and friends’ tweets) locally – any solutions out there? Retrieved from twitter.com, archived at http://www.webcitation.org/5foXLx2sm

  Now I can use some tweets on my final GP vocational training report.

  Some additional information:

  Twitter and Other Mobilizing Tools for Learning and Teaching – Dr. Shock

  Twitter as a tool for Personal Knowledge Management - Eric Mack Online

   
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  alexandregouveia 17:58 on 03/04/2009 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 26ENCG, Family Medicine (12), Twitter (8), Vilamoura, Web 2.0 (10)   

  Social Networking for GPs 

  Lately I’ve been absent from my blog due to the fact that I’m finishing my vocational program and therefore I’m having a work/study overload. But this was a VIP - Very Important Post, so here it goes.

  

  During the last Portuguese National GP Meeting, that occurred in Vilamoura from March 18th to 21st, I and Tom Nolan, from doc2doc, organized a 90 minute workshop entitled Social Networking for General Practitioners and Trainees. This was the first time that Portuguese GPs had the opportunity to discuss and try some of the tools that web 2.0 brought to light during the last years.

  

  Tom presenting the “Social network: what’s in it for GPs?”

  The workshop main attractions were the social network platforms doc2doc and, of course, Twitter. Participants had the chance to endure on a live tweet discussion between me, @amcunningham, @brownleader and @JRBTrip who kindly accepted to be available on Twitter for 30 minutes on that morning. A lot of tweets were exchanged among Portugal (Vilamoura), UK and Australia during those moments, mainly regarding the use of Twitter by GPs, electronic communication between physicians and patients and also different working conditions for GPs. You can tweetsearch the discussion with the hashtag #26encg.

  This conference was particularly interesting, due to high scientific interest, focusing General Practice/Family Medicine and Quality Assessment, but also regarding the fact that it was the first time that a GP conference in Portugal was being live tweeted. Carlos Martins, @mgfamiliarnet, was avidly following the stream during his daily GP activities 600 km away, in a health centre in Porto.

  

  This was a starting kick for Portuguese GPs in social networking 2.0, we hope everyone feels enthusiastic about it.

  And Vilamoura… see you next year!