Premium
1 YouTube for Ultrasound Education
Author(s) -
Liao Michael,
Young Randall
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2008.00131_1.x
Subject(s) - the internet , world wide web , computer science , multimedia , dissemination , internet privacy , clips , download , page view , medicine , web development , telecommunications , static web page , artificial intelligence
The internet has many free resources that can be leveraged for education. We wish to present the use of two popular and free websites to more effectively disseminate educational cases and videos within a residency program and alumni network. Traditionally, sharing video was limited by cost, equipment, and technical challenges. YouTube and similar video sharing websites are attractive in that they allow free, permanent, and widely compatible hosting of videos. Realizing this potential we began using YouTube to share interesting and important video clips of emergency ultrasound cases, thus reaching a broader audience within our residency than possible during conference or tape review sessions. YouTube, however, doesn't allow extensive text and descriptions. We initially used email to convey the case details, however, to better organize and consolidate our cases, we turned to popular free webpage hosting sites like officelive.com and blogger.com. We chose officelive.com for its simplicity, free domain registration, and online web design interface. By using YouTube's ability to embed video onto any website, we were able to present case and video together on one page. All this for free and with common and easy to use online tools. Please visit emugweb.com to see what we have done. We believe that continued and innovative usage of these free internet tools can make our job as educators easier and at the same time offer a more organized and accessible format to our students.