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Distance education delivery has increased dramatically in recent years as a result of the rapid advancement of communication technology. The National Computational Science Alliance's Access Grid represents a significant advancement in communication technology with potential for distance medical education. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the TOUCH project (Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community Health; http://hsc.unm.edu/touch) with special emphasis on the process of problem-based learning case development for distribution over the Access Grid. The objective of the TOUCH project is to use emerging Internet-based technology to overcome geographic barriers for delivery of tutorial sessions to medical students pursuing rotations at remote sites. The TOUCH project also is aimed at developing a patient simulation engine and an immersive virtual reality environment to achieve a realistic health care scenario enhancing the learning experience. A traumatic head injury case is developed and distributed over the Access Grid as a demonstration of the TOUCH system. Project TOUCH serves as an example of a computer-based learning system for developing and implementing problem-based learning cases within the medical curriculum, but this system should be easily applied to other educational environments and disciplines involving functional and clinical anatomy. Future phases will explore PC versions of the TOUCH cases for increased distribution.
Anat Rec B New Anat 2003 Jan
PMID:Integration of advanced technologies to enhance problem-based learning over distance: Project TOUCH. 1252 62

Project TOUCH (Telehealth Outreach for Unified Community Health; http://hsc.unm.edu/touch) investigates the feasibility of using advanced technologies to enhance education in an innovative problem-based learning format currently being used in medical school curricula, applying specific clinical case models, and deploying to remote sites/workstations. The University of New Mexico's School of Medicine and the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai'i face similar health care challenges in providing and delivering services and training to remote and rural areas. Recognizing that health care needs are local and require local solutions, both states are committed to improving health care delivery to their unique populations by sharing information and experiences through emerging telehealth technologies by using high-performance computing and communications resources. The purpose of this study is to describe the deployment of a problem-based learning case distributed over the National Computational Science Alliance's Access Grid. Emphasis is placed on the underlying technical components of the TOUCH project, including the virtual reality development tool Flatland, the artificial intelligence-based simulation engine, the Access Grid, high-performance computing platforms, and the software that connects them all. In addition, educational and technical challenges for Project TOUCH are identified.
Anat Rec B New Anat 2003 Jan
PMID:Virtual patient simulator for distributed collaborative medical education. 1252 63

Computerized animation is becoming an increasingly popular method to provide dynamic presentation of anatomical concepts. However, most animations use artistic renderings as the base illustrations that are subsequently altered to depict movement. In most cases, the artistic rendering is a schematic that lacks realism. Plastinated sections provide a useful alternative to artistic renderings to serve as a base image for animation. The purpose of this study is to describe a method for developing animations by using plastinated sections. This application is used in Project TOUCH as a supplemental learning tool for a problem-based learning case distributed over the National Computational Science Alliance's Access Grid. The case involves traumatic head injury that results in an epidural hematoma with transtentorial uncal herniation. In addition, a subdural hematoma is animated permitting the student to contrast the two processes for a better understanding of dural hematomas, in general. The method outlined uses P40 plastinated coronal brain sections that are digitized and to which contiguous anatomical structures are rendered. The base illustration is rendered, interpolated, and viewed while audio narration describes the event. This method demonstrates how realistic anatomical animations can be generated quickly and inexpensively for medical education purposes by using plastinated brain sections.
Anat Rec B New Anat 2003 Jan
PMID:Anatomy and the access grid: exploiting plastinated brain sections for use in distributed medical education. 1252 64

Rabies kills 55,000 people every year mainly in Africa and Asia, despite being entirely preventable through vaccination and prompt medical treatment. Spurred on by this statistic, the first ever World Rabies Day will be held on September 8 in order to raise global awareness of rabies prevention and control. The driving force behind the initiative is the Alliance for Rabies Control, a charity formed in 2006 by a group of researchers and professionals committed to eradicating rabies. To mark the event, The Veterinary Record has commissioned experts in the field of rabies control to discuss what veterinary surgeons have done and can do to tackle this devastating disease. The message that emerges is that veterinary surgeons, in close collaboration with the medical profession, have a vital role to play. In the first article, Deborah Briggs from Kansas State University and Cathleen Hanlon from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the USA describe the impetus behind the day, who is supporting it and what it hopes to achieve. Articles on the following pages describe other veterinary contributions to this field.
Vet Rec 2007 Sep 01
PMID:World Rabies Day: focusing attention on a neglected disease. 1776 2

The Alliance to Save our Antibiotics, which is made up of the Soil Association, Sustain and Compassion in World Farming, held a meeting in London recently to discuss issues surrounding the use of antibiotics on farms. Before the meeting, Jan Dahl, chief adviser to the Danish Agriculture and Food Council, spoke to Veterinary Record about the regulation of antimicrobial use in food-producing animals in Denmark, and the possibility of a similar system working in the UK. Georgina Mills reports.
Vet Rec 2013 Aug 31
PMID:Danish approach to antimicrobial prescribing. 2399 61

A conference organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Alliance for Rabies Control (GARC), in Geneva on December 10 to 11, 2015, saw delegates from nearly 100 countries meet to discuss the WHO's goal of eliminating dog-mediated human rabies by 2030 and work on a new framework to focus efforts towards achieving this goal. Suzanne Jarvis reports.
Vet Rec 2016 Jan 23
PMID:Aiming for elimination of dog-mediated human rabies cases by 2030. 2679 58

Over the past year, the veterinary profession has been working with the Government and the farming industry to develop specific targets for antimicrobial use in the different livestock sectors. The targets were announced last week at a conference organised by the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance (RUMA).
Vet Rec 2017 Nov
PMID:AMR: major milestone reached as Targets Taskforce presents its proposals. 2909 78