Medical Education Resources

Practicing medicine with technology starts by learning with technology.

Our Purpose

VisualDx provides problem-oriented decision support for differential diagnosis, testing, and therapeutic decisions. VisualDx includes the world’s best and most equitable image collection of disease presentations in people of all skin colors.

With virtual education a must-have in this post-COVID world, VisualDx has created readily available resources to assist both in the classroom and online education.

VisualDx can help you and your program teach:
  • Clinical reasoning skills
  • Point-of-care information access
  • How cognitive biases impact accuracy and diagnosis

Our Commitment

As the quantity of medical knowledge exponentially grows, many medical curricula remain designed around ensuring students achieve high scores on multiple-choice examinations. Emphasizing the memorization of disconnected facts is not an educational paradigm.

The solution is not to add more soon- to-be-replaced facts to an already overwhelmed student brain. We need to create an educational and care delivery system that rewards thoroughness, logical competence, procedural skills, and excellence in information acquisition.

Our patients deserve a disciplined approach to evidence-based problem solving and logical clinical decision making. To achieve this goal, we are certain that students, residents, and clinicians need highly reliable tools designed for the decision-making moment. We need to train students on the tools they will actually use.

Our Inspiration

Variability of care delivery in medicine has existed for decades. Over 50 years ago, Lawrence Weed, MD, challenged those in the medical profession to consider the burden of our cognitive mistakes, the lack of feedback loops in medicine, and the over-reliance on the unaided human brain.

After creating the Problem-Oriented Medical Record and SOAP note format, Dr. Weed spent decades tirelessly advocating for the creation of systems to augment medical thinking.

VisualDx is dedicated to Dr. Weed’s vision of augmented intelligence and the primacy of the patient in medical decision making. We encourage all students, residents, and physicians to view his 1971 Emory University Internal Medicine Grand Rounds.

VisualDx Case Resources for Educators and Students

In addition to the VisualDx system, we create resources to be used in conjunction with VisualDx. These resources engage the learner in clinical decision-making and improve their knowledge of the proper use of information technology.





Problem-Based Learning

Students learn by inputting case findings in VisualDx, reviewing the differential diagnosis, and then discussing their logic.



Case Vignettes

Use case stories to teach problem- solving with VisualDx.



Top 10 Image Challenges

Challenge your students or yourself to identify the diagnosis based on case photos.

Serious Skin Infections
Pediatric Skin Infections
Missed Dermatologic Diagnoses in Primary Care
Infections and Infestations

Dermatology Educational Resources

In addition to the VisualDx system, we create resources to be used in conjunction with VisualDx. These resources engage the learner in clinical decision-making and improve their knowledge of the proper use of information technology.

LearnDerm

Fine-tune your dermatology terminology and test your visual diagnostic skills with this free online tutorial. Five lessons include material in every area of the dermatology fundamentals as well as self-paced tests.

LearnDerm Companion

Download a lecture Powerpoint that includes several topics including "Identifying skin lesions", "Introduction to Morphologic Variation" and "In-class exam".Sample

INFORMED: Melanoma and Skin Cancer Early Detection

The INFORMED program was developed to provide a Web-based early detection training program available for widespread use that is grounded in the realities of primary care delivery, and which includes a deep image database.

National Dermatology Kodachromes

A cornerstone of education for dermatology residents and beyond. Our National Dermatology Kodachrome sessions include a didactic from an esteemed physician followed by an interactive quiz that puts your pattern recognition and diagnostic skills to the test.

External Resources to Support Education in Diagnostic Reasoning



SIDM Foundational Reading in Diagnostic Errors

Getting it Right: Cases to Improve Diagnosis from the ACP

Aquifer Diagnostic Excellence: A Case-Based Course

SIDM Consensus Curriculum on Diagnosis

SIDM Assessment of Reasoning Tool

Resources and References



Features of Effective Medical Knowledge Resources to Support Point of Care Learning: A Focus Group Study

Impact of Clinicians' Use of Electronic Knowledge Resources on Clinical and Learning Outcomes: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Evaluating the appropriateness of electronic information resources for learning.

Unanswered clinical questions: a survey of specialists and primary care providers

Clinical Questions Raised by Clinicians at the Point of Care: A Systematic Review

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