The company announced its offering of refresher courses on video-enabled iPods at the World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency and Critical Care Medicine.
The rising cost of healthcare demands that physicians become more efficient, particularly at the point of care. This requires that they retain an extraordinary amount of information. As a result, we see a great need for assistive tools that can fit in a lab coat pocket, said Daniel D. Price, a physician at Highland General Hospital in Oakland, California and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship.
Dr Price helped found Mobile Medical Media, a company that creates short instructional videos to teach core procedures to doctors and medical trainees.
Focused, well-designed one-to-five minute tutorials can be viewed on an iPod wherever, whenever they are needed, and can bring the physician or medical student up-to-date, on the spot, continued Dr Price.
The video courses are being produced under an exclusive agreement with Mobile Medical Media. The firm’s videos are designed to be viewed on handheld devices, so they can be used in any environment. While the initial modules produced for SonoSite are in English, SonoSite and Mobile Medical Media are preparing equivalent modules in several European and Asian languages.
