Indeed, the deployment of didactic images is centuries old, as this 4000-year-old Mesopotamian drawing of a god with scales makes plain.
Training delivered on simple mobile phones does not permit trainees to interact with the instructor and other participants, perform clinical practice/simulation, or view didactic images such as diagrams, photos, and graphs.
Teaching will mostly take one of the 3 forms: didactics, image review, and hands-on scanning, each lasting up to 1 hour.
EM residents participated in a 1-hour point-of-care thoracic ultrasound training session which included didactics, image review, and hands-on scanning on the cadavers.
Thoracic ultrasound image recognition is readily teachable and minimal didactic and image recognition skill sessions are needed before physicians can recognize the key artifacts which lead to the diagnosis of pulmonary edema and pneumothorax.
The average attendance at voluntary curricular components (workshops, didactics, and image review sessions) over the 6 months was 68% (range 38 88%).
For training in basic CCE, the working group decided that the theoretical component of training should include a minimum of 10 hours of course work, combining lecture, didactic cases, and image interpretation.
At the end of the study, each participant was asked to disclose whether he or she had used other web-based interventions and if so, whether those interventions employed text- or image-based didactic materials, interactive technology, or behavioural strategies.
Topics covered briefly during didactics, such as image interpretation, were explored in depth at the bedside.
Of the 56 hours of mandatory course attendance, 28 hours are devoted to basic CCE (4 hours didactic lectures, 12 hours of image interpretation training, and 12 hours of hands on training with a faculty trainee ratio of 3 1).
The choice of the CSC soft, medium, and hard bands for this image was made for didactic reasons.
