ELECTRONIC MEDICINE                                                                                                                  Links on eMedicine on internet

Electronic medicine is the use of electronic means or ICT to study and/or practice medicine. ICT refers to three items- telephony, cybernetics and microcomputer. When ICT is used to study medicine it is called electronic learning; when used to practice medicine it is referred to as electronic practice. A combination of the two is then called electronic medicine. University of Jos is world wide pioneer in the area of electronic practice.

University of Jos turned itself into a home of Electronic Medicine in December 2005 when the medical school made a demonstration at the National Universities' Commission (NUC)  Science and Technology Fair in ABUJA by the then Dean, Professor Oluwole Ogunranti. This demonstration was later selected as the premier one to be aired by the NTA Network from all Nigerian Universities and was shown on television network through the country five times between 2006 and 2007. Since then  the Jos Medical School has been recognized in Nigeria as a centre of Electronic Medicine. Also the existing electronic facilities for medicine have been placed on the Medical School's internet web site at www.unijosmedicine.org

With the use and practice of all the programs above, a student is able to learn medicine on his/her own and augment all the learning processes in the medical school. Any one is free to join in this learning endeavor which is totally free on internet (address above) containing all the programs above except the videos. Videos can only be found in the Faculty's Medical Illustration and  Technology Unit (MITU) in Jos.

 1.  University of Jos Electronic Medicine program is divided into the following subparts
E learning

E practice/learning

Others
Videos as self instructional packages or as teaching/teaching devices are provided to augment learning above.

2. In house produced soft wares given to staff of the University of Jos medical school for the sole purpose of teaching. All prepared by Oluwole Ogunranti for and donated to faculty.

Electronic MITU A DVD-ROM program containing 100 videos from MITU video library
Osteology Tutorial Anatomy CD-ROM which contains all about bones and search program for all items of the human body
Anatomy ART Anatomy pictures and illustrations for teaching - CD-ROM
How to use the computer VCD for use to familiarize one's self with modern microcomputers
Electronic OSCE Quizzes designed to test the clinical skills of students in all subjects of medicine.

3.  Video library of 100GB which contains the following videos

Anatomy

Audiovisual media 14 min Extraocular muscles test; Abdomen 16 min; Bony pelvis 15 min; Chromosomes 22 min; Ear 8 min Extraocular muscles 16min; Eye 6min; Facial nerve 9min; Female pelvis 16min; Female perineum 14min; Inguinal canal 15min; Male perineum 11min; Male pelvis 14min; Meiosis 8min; Mitosis- animal genetics; Neck 14 min; Neurons & synapses 9min; Nose & Throat 27min; Pain & Temperature pathways 7min; Pelvis introduction 17min; Peripheral nerve histology 7min; Pterygopalatine fossa 11min; Somaesthetic afferents in Posterior column 9min; Thoracic anatomy 17 min; Tissue processing 15min; Trigeminal system 7min; Upper brainstem –sequential 18min.

Biochemistry

Audiovisual media; Science;

Community Health

Audiovisual media; I was only doing my job 23min; Life in Savannah 30min; Medical Geography-globe 7min; What happens next 24min

ENT

Audiovisual media; Ear 8 min; Nose and Throat 14min; Pterygopalatine fossa

Haematology

Audiovisual media; Blood components 19min; Haemophiloid disorders 37min; Pathogenesis of anaemia 30min; Treatment of Haemophiloid disorders 31min

Health workers

Education and Counselling for Family Planning; Family Planning; IUCD insertion; Taking blood pressure 1; 2

Human Physiology

Audiovisual media, Arterial blood pressure 17min; Body in question 34min;  Body in Question 15min; Macrophages 24min; Physiology of nerve recording 10min; Pithing toad 3min; Reading from single neuron- 8min; Taking blood pressure 1 13min; Taking blood pressure 2 6min; Transmission of nerve impulses 3min; Visual cortex 10 min ; Lateral inhibition of retina 3min; Pulmonary function 26min

Medical Microbiology

Audiovisual media; AIDS in history 1987; Sexually transmitted infections; Smallpox- 15min

Medicine

Thoracic anatomy; Audiovisual media; AIDS in History 1987 28min; Examination of abdomen 12min; Examination of CVS 1 14min; Examination of CVS 2 11min; Examination of CVS 3 10min; Pharmacology of autonomic nervous system; Small pox; Sputum; Pulmonary function 26 min; Lassa fever 20 min

Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Audiovisual media; Pelvis introduction; Bony pelvis; Female pelvis; Female perineum; Breech delivery; Caesarean section 2min; Caudal analgesia 22min; Education and counseling for family planning 39 min; Family planning 24min; IUCD insertion 24min; Laparoscopy 1-9min; Laparoscopy 2- 22min; Minilap 25min; Minilaparotomy 15min; Obstetrical examination 15min; Uterine aspiration 29 min.

Ophthalmology

Audovisual media; Extraocular muscle test; Eye; Extraocular muscle; Cyclophosphamide in retinoblastoma; Measurement of intraocular pressure 3min; Mindaril after surgery 2min; Thiabendazole in oculomycosis 10min

Paediatrics

Audiovisual media; Pertussis- 4min

Pathology

Audiovisual media; Vaginal cytology

Pharmacology

Audiovisual medial Beta blockade 17min; Drug compliance 14min; Glaxo drugs 15min; Pharmacology of Autonomic Nervous system 24min; SMON 1 7min; SMON 2 3min; SMON 3 16 min

Psychiatry

Audiovisual media; Mind-body problem 9min

Radiology

Audiovisual media; Upper brain stem sequential; Xray of pituitary fossa 18min

Surgery

Audiovisual media; Abdomen; Inguinal canal; Commissurotomy; Handicapped 33min; Inguinal herniotomy 7min; Kiss of life (resuscitation); Prepared for theatre 23min; Split brain 11min; Urethral catheterisation 1 (10min) , 2 (11min), 3 (7min); Vasectomy 17min

Use the above by hooking on to  USB ports computers in MITU.

2. A collection of 19 DVD-videos with DVD player machines and TV monitors which can be borrowed and used inside MITU for a few hours, but not up to one whole day or watched in group at the MITU classrooms. The list available now is as follows.

General: Audiovisual media, 14min

Anatomy: Bony pelvis, Neuroanatomy, Abdomen 16min, Inguinal canal 15min, Central Nervous system, Chromosomes 22min, Ear anatomy  8min, Thorax anatomy 17min, Peripheral nervous system, 7min

Physiology: Arterial blood pressure 17min, Blood components in surgery

Pharmacology: Drug compliance 14min, Cyclophosphamide and retinoblastoma, Beta bloackade 17min.

Obstetrics: Breech delivery

Medicine: AIDS in Nigeria 28min, Commissurotomy 33min.

Videos as self instructional packages or as teaching/teaching devices are provided to augment learning.


MITU Electronic video library

 

 

For more information on Jos Electronic Medicine, please contact Medical Illustration and Technology Unit (MITU) or the University of Jos College of Medical Sciences, Provost's office.