Sunday, February 26, 2017

Wikipedia and YouTube


Wikipedia is good reference for definition sources for medical education students but not for research learning. Most medical students have to have a research base in particular specialties resulting in detailed and advanced study. Wikipedia does not give enough resources for medical students complete these study concentrations. Therefore, I would not use Wikipedia a resource completely. 

 I would on the other hand, I would  include YouTube as a medical student tool for learning. YouTube gives a huge amount of room for medical school resource sharing and provide visual imagery to enhance retrieval of stored information. The integration of YouTube also creates a unique way for educational content online learning and collaboration through real-life situations and observation. 

 I don't necessarily teach with YouTube but my involvements with assisting medical faculty with their educational teachings, I have found the YouTube and popular method for e-learning and online education and research learning.

 Although anyone can upload to YouTube, medical teaching and learning is somewhat reliable based on various copyright protections and permissible medical education filing sharing considerations.
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  1. UnknownMarch 3, 2017 at 5:12 PM

    I love using youtube in my classroom as something to supplement lessons. For example, my students are about to start a research project about a career they are interested in. When I introduced the project, I showed them several videos of famous people giving career advice. I find that my students are always most engaged when there is a video on, so I try to work it in whenever possible.

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  2. LWomackMarch 4, 2017 at 1:29 AM

    Ryan, Youtube is good for supplemental learning especially in my area of work in the medical field. A good amount of learning is done through digital examples of real life simulation learning.

    As you commented, incorporating Youtube for learning is very engaging and and can also bring about strong networking collaboration for continuing education.

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  3. sikojpMarch 6, 2017 at 9:27 AM

    Ryan, why is that? In your opinion, what makes a video so much better than text, or bringing in a live person?

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    1. LWomackMarch 9, 2017 at 4:08 PM

      Dr. Siko, teaching medical students involve required research and live practicum study. The practicum study work is a major part of medial student teaching. Majority of this teaching is done by live and non-live visual simulation and demonstration by video recordings. Some of this recording is done and posted for viewing on YouTube for easy access learning for medical students. Because of this and my opinion is that video is much better for live simulation recording learning.

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