Using Interactive Whiteboards for Case Presentations

As this is my first foray into the blogosphere, I thought I would start off with something “technological” and new to me! But first, I shall introduce myself.

My name is Kevin "Chaim" Herman, and I am an interventional radiologist in Teaneck, New Jersey. I am a partner at Advanced Interventional Radiology Services, which is a private practice comprised of three dedicated interventional radiologists, John Rundback, David Singh, and myself, as well as a physician assistant. Our practice is based at Holy Name Medical Center, a 350-bed community hospital. The interventional institute at HNMC is comprised of three angiosuites, two ultrasound units, a vascular lab, and dedicated CT scanner. Our support staff, including technologists, nurses, and administrators, numbers close to 25 full-time individuals.

I want to focus on a new technology I was introduced to at a high school open house I just attended for my daughter who is in 8th grade. I appreciate great technology love to use it but I would not say I am a technology guru! The technology is an iPad “app” called Show Me Interactive Whiteboard from Learnbat, Inc. Essentially, this app turns your iPad into an interactive whiteboard that you can also record voice over. It is the perfect forum to create tutorials, case presentations, and so on, describing new techniques or interesting cases. The presentation is then stored online in your Show Me account, which is free. It can be tagged, emailed, or embedded into social media. I thought this would be a perfect tool to share with the readers.  

I went ahead and created a presentation of an interesting case I just performed (RFA of a hepatoma). The presentation took about 20 minutes to create; all I had to do was take photographic images of the case on my iPad, then simply open the app and cut and paste the images in the order I chose. Then I pressed record and narrated the oral presentation and drew on the images in real time to highlight important pieces of information. The software is free, fun and easy to use.