“Medical
education has always been very visual and very demonstrative, and Glass has
enormous potential to positively impact the way we can educate physicians in
real time. Indeed, all of medicine is based on ‘seeing’, not ‘reading’, the patient.”
UC Irvine's Assistant Clinical
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Dean of instructional
technologies Dr. Warren Wiechmann speaking about the use of Google Glass at UC
Irvine
UC
Irvine School of Medicine has now become the first Medical Teaching Institution
in the world to incorporate Google Glass into their Teaching curriculum for
their Medical course as stated in “Google
Glass handed out to all medical students at UC Irvine”, published May 14,
2014 6:09 PM PDT by Dara Kerr, CNET News and
“UC
Irvine is the first medical school to add Google Glass to its curriculum”,
published May 15, 2014 11:45 AM by Barry
Levine, VentureBeat.
To
be more specific, Google Glass will be used by the following Medical Students
at UC Irvine School of Medicine as follows:
1.
1st and 2nd year Students will use
Google Glass for Anatomy Class
2.
3rd and 4th year Students will use
Google Glass during their hospital rotations
UC
Irvine's Dean of Medicine Dr. Ralph V. Clayman, who's currently pioneering the
use of Google Glass in other areas of the hospital, such as the operating
rooms, intensive care units, and the emergency department, is clearly gung-ho
about technology's role in Teaching Medicine, quote: “I believe digital technology will let us
bring a more impactful and relevant clinical learning experience to our
students. Enabling our students to become adept at a variety of digital
technologies fits perfectly into the ongoing evolution of healthcare into a
more personalized, participatory, home-based and digitally driven endeavor.”
Google Glass as a Tool
for Learning – UWI Med Sci Students have Tablets but no Glass
Already
Google Glass is being used by the Doctors at Beth Israel Hospital, who have
adopted it due to this Wearable Computer Voice Command hands-free way of
accessing information. So too,
interestingly, has the US Army, which is very much interested in using it in
combat situations, which may include in-the-battlefield medical Diagnosis as
suggested in my blog
article entitled “US
Air Force testing the use of Google Glass in Combat - Helping Professionals on
the Front Lines of their respective fields”.
Meanwhile
back in Jamaica…..
The
question many Med Sci Students here in Jamaica at the University of the West
Indies should be asking is this: when will ANY of these Technologies be adopted
in Teaching Medicine as well as in Hospitals to enhance the quality of delivery
of Medical Care?
Hopefully
they will adopt Google Glass in the future much as they’d pioneered the use of
Tablets for Med Sci Students as I’d originally reported in my blog article
entitled “UWI
Medical Sciences Students get deal on JL Mobile SmartTab Tablets and cheaper
ebook versions of Textbooks - From Gross Anatomy to Islandwide Push towards
Tablet Adoption”.
Google Glass on Sale to
the Public – Ramp up to meet Samsung Galax Glass and Facebook’s Oculus Rift
Google
Glass has now gone on sale officially and is available for US$1500 online as
Google tries to pre-empt the coming of Samsung Galaxy Glass as explained in my blog article
entitled “Google
Glass launched early as a Product - Google pre-empting Samsung Galaxy Glass and
Facebook's Oculus Rift replacing the smartphone in 2015 the Year of the Sheep”.
Clearly
too, Google is also feeling a little fear of Facebook’s Oculus Rift, whose
Technology delivers a whole new perspective on VR (Virtual Reality) and how News
is interpreted as predicted in my blog article entitled
“Facebook
launches FB Newswire with Verified News from Storyful - Facebook's a bonafide
Social Media Newspaper coming soon to a Oculus Rift Smartglasses near you”.
So
who’s going to adopt Google Glass Next aside from UC Irvine School of Medicine?
My best bet would be Maintenance Engineers in a Process Plant Setting. Would it
be nice if it were ALCOA, owners of JAMALCO, our local Alumina Plant in Halse
Hall, Clarendon.
Stay
tuned to my blog for my next article as Google makes a push towards a
prêt-a-porter design by 2015!
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