title: A novel application of the MIRC repository in medical education.
abstract: Medical students on the radiology elective in our institution create electronic presentations to present to each other as part of the requirements for the rotation. Access was given to previous students' presentations via the web-based system, Medical Imaging Resource Center (MIRC) project, created and supported by the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). RadPix Power 2 MIRC (Weadock Software, LLC, Ann Arbor, MI) software converted the Microsoft PowerPoint (Redmond, WA) presentations to a MIRC-compatible format. The textual information on each slide is searchable across the entire MIRC database. Future students will be able to benefit from the work of their predecessors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Health System, B1-G304, 1500 E. Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0030, USA. weadock@umich.edu
authors.forename: Christopher J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Roth
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Weadock
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Dipietro
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia; D011871:Radiology / Q000193:education*; D011873:Radiology Information Systems; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface