title: The Use of a Small Private Online Course to Allow Educators to Share Teaching Resources Across Diverse Sites: The Future of Psychiatric Case Conferences?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The authors sought to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating small private online course (SPOC) technology with flipped classroom techniques in order to improve neuroscience education across diverse training sites.
  
  
  METHODS
  Post-graduate medical educators used SPOC web conferencing software and video technology to implement an integrated case conference and in-depth neuroscience discussion.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ten psychiatry training programs from across the USA and from two international sites took part in the conference. Feedback from participants was largely positive.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This pilot demonstrated the feasibility of such a program and provided a diverse audience with the opportunity to engage in an interactive learning experience with expert faculty discussants. This may be a useful model for programs with limited local expertise to expand their teaching efforts in a wide range of topics.
authors.affiliation: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Billy J
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6423-1970
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Lockhart
authors.affiliation: Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Noah A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Capurso
authors.affiliation: Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Isaiah
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Chase
authors.affiliation: Columbia and the NY State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Melissa R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Arbuckle
authors.affiliation: Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Travis
authors.affiliation: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Eisen
authors.affiliation: Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. david.a.ross@yale.edu.
authors.forename: David A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Ross
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching; D049269:Videoconferencing / Q000295:instrumentation*
keywords: Curriculum; Neuroscience; Online learning