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A platform delivering complex, high-resolution textured 3D models for dermatology educators to seamlessly build upon in their learning designs.
About
We are developing a platform that is designed to deliver complex, high-resolution textured 3D models for dermatology education. These 3D models, created by taking cutting edge scans of real patients, will offer students the opportunity to examine and explore detailed representations of dermatological conditions that they may otherwise not have access to in clinical settings. The platform uses educational technology standards to allow these models to be delivered directly into student accessible learning platforms for maximum flexibility and ease of use and allows educators to tag custom views of the models to personalise and tailor the learning that they provide.
Key Benefits
The platform is well-suited to offering resources that can address racial bias in dermatology education, allowing a detailed view on the presentation of dermatology conditions amongst people of colour. It draws upon St George’s experience of projects targeting this issue; ‘Mind the Gap’, an open educational resource handbook of clinical signs and symptoms on black and brown skin co-created by staff and students has been viewed more than 170,000 times since being made available in 2020.
By delivering digital versions of dermatology conditions the platform provides the opportunity to make even rare conditions available for learners to examine and learn, providing these in an environment that is safe and well scaffolded for learning, eliminating the risk of patient harms that can be exposed by allowing trainees to work in a clinical environment.
The platform will allow educators to use tagging and custom views of the 3D resources which are personalised to their own designed learning journeys and to make these available to their students. The platform will use the well-supported LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) standard to allow the resources to be seamlessly embedded into other learning platforms such that educators are able to deliver their teaching directly in learning environments already used by their learners, further reducing barriers to access.
Mukwende, Malone; Tamony, Peter; Turner, Margot (2020). Mind the Gap: A handbook of clinical signs in Black and Brown skin. St George's, University of London. Online resource. https://doi.org/10.24376/rd.sgul.12769988.v1
Applications
Our target market are dermatology educators, and through them, students and trainees in all medical and health disciplines and specialties which require a knowledge of dermatology conditions. The resources it contains will be able to be personalised through tagging and system integrations to be globally applicable to a worldwide audience.