Technology!

1. My mentor uses a lot of technology throughout his day to day work. In the lab, they use high tech equipment such as x-ray machines, intra-aortic balloon pumps, complex computer programs, and many other medical technologies. He also uses programs like Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access when working in the office. Also frequently utilized are communication tools like emails and text message via phones. When he is on call, he wears a pager in order to be alerted to call the hospital so he can come in if he needs to treat a patient.

2. He primarily uses email, text messaging, and computer instant messaging technologies to communicate with other professionals.

  3. He uses power points and other complex systems similar to power point to share research or cases with others. When working through the hospital, the hospital occasionally also places lectures or things like such on their education website.

4.  He believes that in the future, telemedicine will become more popular. He thinks that doctors will soon be able to see and assess patients without having to be directly in front of them but rather through live feeds such as in the case of rural hospitals that do not have specialists. A specialist from a larger hospital could use telemedicine to make a judgment on whether or not the patient could be adequately treated at that hospital or needs to be brought to a larger hospital.

   5.  I believe that technology will be a large part of my profession in the future. As so much of medical records are being switched over to electronic copies, I think I will very frequently be utilizing technology in my future profession.

Because of the availability and ease of the internet, I would like to somehow incorporate the internet into my final project potentially by creating an informative website that could easily be shared and is not limited by a number or brochures or length of video or anything like that.