Monday, February 1, 2016

My Project Gallery Revolution (Part 4)

This is the fourth posting in a series describing my experiment on creating a project gallery at the Canadian Organization of Medical Physics 2015 Winter School. See Part 1Part 2, and Part 3 for entries.

I had to get my science organized somehow so I decided to create a powerpoint with the essentials of what I need to present: Here is a draft of that presentation. It's probably going to be easiest just to print off some colour 11x17s of the presentation and lay them around the table, and use my laptop as well for queue. So this, along with a printout of our IGRT manual will constitute the tangible bits of our project gallery.

Next, how to get some interaction. I saw this online and got excited. A portable whiteboard is a bit cooler than good ole construction paper/bulletin board/paper, and reusable. Check out some creative uses of dry-erase sheets. Something disposable and flexible would be absolutely ideal, or even a textbook. Problem is that time isn't on my side and ordering something like this is probably going to take too long.

Staples had something in stock so I ran over and bought a 4x6 roll along with some pens and eraser. It looks like it's pretty easy to take on/off any surface, so I have a few. I could just write a bunch of questions on the sheet and hope that I get some people to voluntarily write responses.... problem is that I don't have any clue if I can keep the portable white board up for a while (say for a few days). Hopefully the organizers won't mind!

Some of the specific questions I will write:

  1. Do you perform daily image guidance for breast cancer patients? If so, how?
  2. Do you measure SSDs daily for your breast cancer patients? If so how is this information used?
  3. Do you use CBCTs for breast imaging? If so, why and how?
  4. What is the most difficult image guidance site at your centre?
  5. What is the single most important lesson you've learned during your adoption of kV and CBCT technology at your centre?
I'm really curious about these answers... enough to even create a QR code for the same questions and post their results after a few days. 

Thats it for now. Next post will be the actual display and maybe some feedback on how it transpired.

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