A picture paints a thousand words.
Sometimes, it's just very helpful to be able to show someone a picture of what you're talking about. For example, this is what a glioblastoma multiforme looks like on MRI:
Or, here is a map of the Ohio river valley:
FrontalCortex.com has over 3,000 images. Anyone can pull one of these up and use it for teaching. Or download it to include in powerpoint presentation.
Mixing with Face-to-Face Learning
- See a patient with a student or resident
- Discuss the patient
- Prompt the learner to ask questions
- If no questions, ask the learner
- Identify areas of weakness
- Pull out the images and discuss
Examples:
Explaining the different arteries in the brain:
Explaining the different brain imaging modalities, or stroke:
Outcome:
Very helpful
Images can come from FrontalCortex.com, PACS, Flikr, Google, etc.
Minimal labor to create