COMPARE/Radiology, an Interactive Web-based Radiology Teaching Program

Case Comparisons

“…The web-based training program COMPARE (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany) (5,7), for example, uses a page format in which a normal image flanks a pathologic image, and students are prompted to compare these. As much as 91% of the students and 88% of the residents who used this program valued the technique as useful or very useful (7). In addition, it was found that students learned more effectively when comparing focal diseases (ie, lesions in one location) to normal images than when comparing two pathologic images (6).…”

“…Educational literature suggests that the use of comparison can bolster this learning process (5)(6)(7)(8). The web-based training program COMPARE (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany) (5,7), for example, uses a page format in which a normal image flanks a pathologic image, and students are prompted to compare these.…”

Effectiveness of the computer enhanced visual learning method in teaching the society for fetal urology hydronephrosis grading system for urology trainees

“…The Institute of Radiology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg has developed an online depository of cases and images of varying difficulty with immediate feedback entitled e-learning in radiology or ELERA [7]. An additional site complied by the same group, COMPARE, is designed for acquisition of skill and knowledge at the medical student level [8]. Reid et al also produced an online learning tool to teach pediatric radiology [9].…”

A competency‐based test of bronchoscopic knowledge using the Essential Bronchoscopist: An initial concept study

“…Web‐based e ‐ curricula are transforming the traditional educational model in differing fields of science, engineering and medicine 20–22 . In medicine, e ‐ curricula are already common in radiology, 23–25 radiation oncology, 25 anaesthesiology, 26 emergency medicine, 27 evidence‐based medicine, 28,29 and in surgical and procedural specialties 30,31 . Strategies for better delivery of e‐curricula and their impact on patient outcomes have been investigated 32,33 .…”