Salil Soman, MD, UMDNJ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; Judith K. Amorosa, MD; Anjali Masan; Ian Tseng, MD

The StudentPACS flash extension was presented at RSNA's 2006 annual conference as InfoRADS exhibit #4433885 under the abstract titled Faculty Development: Moving PACS into Teaching and Physician Communication without the Hardware (http://studentpacs.com). This extension for macromedia flash enables students to quickly annotate a series of images from a cross sectional study using a flash tutorial that not only allows users to search for findings within the study, but also to engage in questions related to the findings.

At our institution we have implemented a medical student research elective during which, over the course of 2-4 weeks, medical students are introduced to the StudentPACS program, then placed with various faculty throughout the department to collect cases as they are being read. Then the students create flash tutorials under the guidance of department radiology residents. All information in these modules is cited. Then the text of these modules is summarized into radlex keywords. Ultimately, these modules are then made available via our department's website with the radlex terms hidden as meta data within the web pages for those modules.

Student feedback regarding their satisfaction with the learning process of the elective was gathered. Additionally, feedback from attendings who worked with elective students was gathered regarding both their experience working with students and the final tutorial modules created as a result of the elective.

This project sought to use openly available software (the studentPACS tool created within our department) to allow the integration of medical student education into our department's daily work flow, and to facilitate the sharing of educational cases that arise through our daily practice.

Our conclusion is that this method of utilizing the StudentPACS module as central tool in one of our medical student research lectives allows us to provide medical students with an organized learning experience, in which they can experience both working with attendings and residents, and also engage in self directed work which results in materials that they and their fellow medical students can freely access to further their own radiology education.

RSNA's 2006 annual conference as InfoRADS exhibit #4433885 under the abstract titled Faculty Development: Moving PACS into Teaching and Physician Communication without the Hardware.