We have integrated ImageSim™ courses into both fellow and faculty learning. Our participants particularly like the gamification aspect of the course which makes learning fun and effective. The competency-based goal is particularly fitting to the wide variety of learners that we train.
We have used ImageSim™ courses to augment and expand on their point-of-care-ultrasound experience and education. Our team members commented that they would recommend this program to learners and experts alike without reservation!
We have included ImageSim™ courses as a formal part of our pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training for several years. ImageSim™ is truly a remarkably fast and inexpensive way to become highly competent in interpreting diagnostic images.
MSF’s collaboration with ImageSim™ has helped teach our clinical offers in several of our locations in Africa and the Middle East. Participants are so enthusiastic about it! Tools like this are invaluable to us since they allow the consolidation of diagnostic skills in places where they are needed so much.
Development
We are excited to introduce ImageSim™ Ocular Point of Care Ultrasound. This course provides a patient-authentic collection of 190 videos and still images from pediatric and adult patients. These cases demonstrate a spectrum of normal and pathologic cases that suggest increased intracranial pressure, lens pathology, retinal detachment, and vitreous/retinal detachment, vitreous hemorrhage, and ocular masses. The development of this course was a collaboration between experts in emergency medicine physicians, ophthalmologists, medical education, user and software design. This course is relevant for any health care provider who practices in acute care medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, ophthalmology, optometry, and neurology. Experience it here.
Partnerships
We want to celebrate our partnership with 247Labs. We have worked with their team of software developers and user design consultants for seven years…and counting! This very professional team efficiently and effectively provides a cutting technical edge experience for our course participants. This includes everything from the marketing website to case presentation and participant performance tracking. We are always impressed how this team takes the platform just one step further to provide an excellent technical experience.
Research
Visual diagnosis is a skill relevant to almost every field of medicine. For almost 20 years, ImageSim™ is committed to doing research that improves our understanding of how health care providers learn the skill of visual diagnosis. We use this evidence and apply it to our course design to ensure we are providing the best educational experience that optimizes a clinician’s readiness for bedside practice. This year we will be exploring why some physicians reach competency faster than others, what competency standards optimize both patient safety and learner satisfaction, and how physicians learn the skills of ocular ultrasound, first trimester pregnancy ultrasound, and the classification and diagnosis of gastrointestinal polyps. Stay tuned and keep up with our latest manuscripts.