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THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND COURSE (MOOC) NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE
The Laboratory of Therapeutic Applications of Ultrasound (LabTAU) – in collaboration with the Focused Ultrasound Foundation – recently launched the first presentation in its Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) dedicated to therapeutic ultrasound.
MOOCs are free online courses that provide a flexible way to learn new skills or become familiar with a new topic.
This MOOC is targeted toward physicians, students, and patients who are interested in learning about the clinical and technical research in the field of focused ultrasound. World renowned experts in the field will provide 12 unique presentations covering a variety of topics such as technical explanations of various focused ultrasound applications and clinical case presentations.
Throughout the upcoming year, a new course will become available each month. The first course – “Neurological disorders treated by HIFU” by W. Jeffrey Elias, MD – is available now.
The complete list of experts taking part in the MOOC is as follows:
| Florent Aptel, MD, PhD CHU Grenoble, France |
W. Jeffrey Elias, MD University of Virginia, USA |
Bruno Quesson, PhD IHU Lyric, France |
| Alexander Carpentier, MD, PhD Carthera, France |
Pejman Ghanouni, MD, PhD Stanford University, USA |
Oleg Sapozhnikov, PhD Moscow State University, Russia |
| Sébastien Crouzet, MD, PhD Hospices Civils de Lyon, France |
Chrit Moonen, PhD UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands |
Gail ter Haar, PhD The Institute of Cancer Research, UK |
| Lawrence Crum, PhD University of Washington, USA |
Franco Orsi, MD, PhD European Institute of Oncology, Italy |
Shin-ichiro Umemura, PhD Tohoku University, Japan |
Each course concludes with a short self-assessment quiz to help reiterate the important learning points. There is also an open forum to promote discussion and additional resources to support the course curriculum.
In 2017, LabTau was named one of the Foundation’s Centers of Excellence, indicating that it is one of the world’s luminary sites for focused ultrasound.
“The idea of the MOOC came about because, as part of LabTau’s responsibility as a Center of Excellence, we must provide educational opportunities to help promote and grow the field,” explains Cyril Lafon, PhD, Director of LabTAU. “Our hope is that the MOOC will appeal to people from various backgrounds, and it will help introduce the field of therapeutic ultrasound to a wide audience.”
The MOOC is free of charge and available online for one year on the University of Lyon's educational platform Claroline. It may automatically appear in French, but you can select your preferred language by clicking on the box (FR) at the bottom right of the pag
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