To offer a program that allows creating easily interactive radiology tutorials, is available online and is free to use.

The Internet becomes increasingly a source of information for medical professionals and offers educators a platform to distribute their training material to an audience that may be local or distributed to remote areas of this world. However, creating didactic material and presenting it in an efficient way is still difficult, time elaborate and often also expensive. A program is desired that allows creating easily interactive radiology tutorials, is available online and is free to use.

This free online program allows anybody to create their own radiology tutorials. A three step approach makes the creation of that tutorial easy: create a tutorial, create chapters for the respective tutorial and create pages for the respective chapter (figures 1-4). The user may add multimedia to the tutorial and - what is unique - also entire image stacks which can be viewed as on the radiologist's workstation with features such as scroll, window/level, pan, zoom (figure 5). The program provides predefined categories (e.g. organ...

We provide a program that allows easily creating online radiology tutorials, allows interactivity with the trainee, performance check and is free to use.

1. Radiolopolis - The international Radiology community for education, research and practice. URL: http://www.radiolopolis.com 2. Radiology Tutorials. URL: http://www.radiologytutorials.com 3. OnCallRadiology - Common emergency radiology findings on call. URL: http://www.oncallRadiology.com 4. Chest Radiology - A Web Tutorial for Chest Anatomy and Lung Malignancies. URL: http://www.ChestRadiology.net

For more information please contact Roland Talanow, MD, PhD at [email protected]