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• Founded in 2008 at Johns Hopkins• U.S. 501(c)3 Nonprofit Organization structure in 2009• Numerous partnered academic, governmental, NGO,

and corporate institutions• Grants from Johns Hopkins (Gatewood), Duke

University, Google, Philips, Project HOPE, Aperian GlobeSmart, and others

• Regular web traffic to rad-aid.org from 110+ countries• 225+ Volunteers and 700+ members

• To increase access to quality, safe, clinically appropriate, and sustainable radiology services in resource limited parts of the world

• RAD-AID fulfills this mission by…

• Optimizing the role of the radiology community in global public health initiatives and clinical health care

• Using a non-paternalistic, data-driven, cooperative, and ethical approach

Two-thirds of the world population lacks adequate access to medical imaging World Health Organization

“Health care technologies are seen as peripheral to health care delivery and…receive little attention from health care planners.”

“In…Sub-Saharan Africa…up to 70% of equipment lies idle due to mismanagement of the technology acquisition process, lack of user training, and lack of effective technical support.”

WHO Guidelines for Health Equipment Donation (2000)

• RAD-AID optimizes the role of the radiology community in global public health initiatives and clinical health care by…• Refining, promoting, and executing RAD-AID’s

structured, data-driven approach to assessing the strengths, weaknesses, and needs of radiology practices in the developing world

• Developing awareness through marketing and outreach

• Providing training in aspects of international health, the practice of radiology in developing nations, and program development

• Providing a platform for coordinating radiology outreach and development projects

“The most important prerequisite … is that the [facility] truly needs [radiology] and has the expertise and means to operate and maintain it.”WHO Guidelines for Health Equipment Donation (2000)

16-part analytical framework for integrating radiologic, clinical, technical, economic, and emerging market issues to develop sustainable solutions for medical imaging in low-resource settings.

• Inadequate maintenance and quality control procedures• Limited infrastructure (e.g. dust and temperature control,

stable voltage)• Inadequate safety measures (radiation, MRI)• Women’s health deemphasized• Minimal formal business training and resources (project

planning, finance, accounting, management, etc.)

Training•Not standardized

• Insufficient• Inaccurate

• Successful 2011 pilot of Radiology Faculty Lecture Exchange

• Expanding Radiology Lecture Exchange for the next 3 years with Chinese Society of Radiology

• RAD-AID Team returning to China in December 2012

• Projects include (1) radiology technologist training for quality and safety, (2) radiologist educational lectures, and (3) standardizing training tracks for radiology professionals

• Emphasis on boosting training in Western China where educational resources are in short supply and hospitals have large indigent populations

• RAD-AID partnering with WHO/Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)

• RAD-AID team returning in January 2012

• Efforts aimed at health capacity building through interdisciplinary training of nurses, techs, and radiologists

• In partnership with CRUDEM Foundation and Hospital Sacre Coeur in North Haiti and Project HOPE Adventist Hospital in Diquini

• Mobile women’s health in Chandigarh, India• Mammography, DEXA,

Colposcopy, Education• Guaranteed long-term

clinical follow-up (through partnership with a major Indian university hospital)

• RAD-AID teams returning Jan and Feb of 2012

• Publications underway on mobile imaging and women's health

• Project explorations now going on in Mumbai and Bangalore

• Integrated with traditional onsite training

• Preparatory training prior to onsite training

• Supplemental training and assessment during onsite training

• Continuing education and assessment after onsite training

Target audience • Medical Imaging professionals in

developing nations

• Initially technologists, sonographers, technicians

Content provided free-of-charge

Initial subject areas• Mammography

• Radiography

• Ultrasound

Research data collected: September 2010, by Chapman Alliance

How much time and money is spent to develop one finished hour of Level 1 eLearning?

Graphic Production 8.5 hours $1, 102

Video Production 3.5 hours $ 445

Audio Production 6 hours $ 696

Authoring / Programming 13 hours $ 1,708

QA Testing 5 hours $ 651

Project Management 5 hours $ 646

SME / Stakeholder Reviews 6 hours $ 711

Pilot Testing 3.5 hours $ 437

Total 50.5 $ 6,396

• eLearning has grown quickly since the 1990s -complexity of authoring processes can be intimidating

• The solution is to develop effective, eLearning through a customized, all purpose templates

• Just-in-time training

• Compromise between the economic need for rapid learning and the pedagogical objective of a good instructional design

• Identify Subject Matter Expert• RAD-AID PowerPoint Template• RAD-AID Author Guidelines

• Course Description• Images/ Graphics / Video• Glossary• Transcript• Test Questions

Production time : less than 20 hours

• HTML / HTML5• Flash• Microsoft Word / .PDF• Compact Disc• Podcast• Mobile Devices

• Apple iOS (69.6% global tablet market)

• Focus is structured delivery of educational content

• Provides an administrative infrastructure to regulate and monitor use of materials

• Built-in tools to enhance learning

• Online Learning Community

• Discussion Groups

• Support

• Developed in collaboration with and funded by Philips

• A hosted LMS powered by the Philips Online Learning Center

• Immediate audience of thousand of medical techs seeking CE

“Radiology and Global Health: Implementation and Optimization of Medical Imaging in Developing Countries.”

• A multidisciplinary resource for understanding the complex aspects of radiologic services in resource-limited environments

• 4 years running (2009-2012)

• 150 will be attending this year (interdisciplinary)

• NGOs, academic medical centers, radiologists, technologists, nurses, humanitarian aid workers, businesses, etc.

• Panels

• Economics

• Technology

• Clinical Practice

• Education

• Public Health

• White paper report summarizing conference topics published in Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)

Please visit

www.rad-aid.org

Chris Steelman MS, RT(R)(CI), RCISInstructional Technology Systems Manager

csteelman@rad-aid.org(843) 290-5404