There is the XXI century outside, the century which began with triumph of information technologies in all areas of human activities including medical education. Staying with Ross over the past four years I have been a witness of implementation of the mediasite, audience-response system, virtual microscopy, podcasting, televideoconferencing, etc. I believe the time has come to move further and start to implement Web 2.0 technology in our mutual teaching-learning process.
This is not an attempt to create an additional spot for spoon feeding or lecturing. Using interactive technology I will try to help you to develop your clinical reasoning, to step further from blind memorization of isolated chunks of information, and also to create a clear understanding of diseases despite all their complexity. I would also like to show you that medicine and pathology, in particular, still are more an art than a science where everything can be measured, calculated, and unscrambled. It was always like that, and I think the situation won’t change very soon.
As we are not limited here to the Learning Objectives, we can go beyond the traditional courses of Pathology 1 and 2, discuss issues raised in Cases of the Week, at Pathology Club meetings, your PBL session, etc.
Your posts will be the best evidence that you appreciate my attempts to built bridges between you and me.
Cheers,
Michael Yakubovskyy, MD
Your Teacher of Pathology
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