Medical Education and Technology

Even 20 years ago when we first arrived in Ecuador, information technology helped with medical education. We would send a medical search request to the National Library of Medicine via a dial-up connection and receive an answer within a couple days. That was amazing back then!
Now, Hospital Vozandes' teaching staff can offer live training sessions via video-conference with medical personnel in other places. The picture is from this month's Morbidity-Mortality lecture. On the screen are students participating from the Loja medical school in southern Ecuador. They are watching in real-time and asking questions. Medical education and technology have come a LONG way! At the podium is Dick Douce answering hard questions about tuberculosis...some things don't change.