Teleteaching for medical education: why and how to do it

Abstract

Teleteaching aims to help universities and nonacademic institutions improve, update and upgrade their educational programs for a better control of health care cost-effectiveness in developed or developing countries. A multicontinental multilingual service therefore could be offered through multimedia information superhighways and telebroadcasting networks. Attractive programs can be made combining conventional lectures, workshops, talk-shows, reality-shows, teleconferencing and teleproctoring formulae similar to techniques used in ordinary show-business.When the problems of moral and financial sponsoring are solved, teleteaching will create a new job mixing medical and nonmedical specialists of telecommunications aiming to offer highly professional medical educational shows.

Contrast-induced acute kidney injury and diabetic nephropathy

“…34 The role of direct toxic tubular effects in CIAKI remains controversial but they are probably a contributory factor. 2,4,62–64 …”

“…3,4,64,68,69 The incidence of CIAKI in patients with diabetic nephropathy is 9–40% in individuals with a serum creatinine level >124 μmol/l 3,52,69 and 50–95% in those with a serum creatinine level >177 μmol/l. 3,31,33,70 …”