Distance education

Making notesMany of the same technologies that we use to provide clinical telehealth services can be used to support remote education of health professionals, patients, and the public. Core multimedia collaboration technologies include videoconferencing, data and slide presentation, document sharing, and web streaming. The UM Medical campus is  is equipped with both wired and wireless Local Area Networks (LANs). The wired network serves all major facilities, providing 10/100/1G desktop connectivity and 1G/10G between buildings. The wireless network provides 802.11B/G inside of most major buildings, as well as to many outside areas, and is being upgraded to 802.11A/B/G/N.  Off-campus, a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) and a Citrix Applications Portal offer secure remote access.

Users may access the commercial Internet, Internet2, and Florida LambdaRail, LLC (FLR), protected by perimeter firewalls and intrusion prevention systems. Campus collaboration tools include high-definition and standard-resolution video conferencing, web meeting tools, intranet space via Microsoft SharePoint, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and web content servers.

We offer remote access to UM medical grand rounds and lectures via videoconferencing.

For example:

  • Physicians and staff at our Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center (SCCC) affiliate campus in Deerfield Beach connect to the Miami SCCC by videoconferencing for a variety of educational and administrative functions, including lymphoma conferences, hematology/oncology lectures, and faculty meetings.
  • Grand rounds in pediatrics and anesthesiology are provided via videoconferencing to hospitals and other health care facilities in South Florida with participating UM faculty and residents as well as other physician and health care provider colleagues.
  • Videoconferencing connects our new Medicine residencies at JFK Hospital and the West Palm Beach VA Hospital with each other and UMMSOM.
  • We conduct a monthly, large-scale international dermatology lecture series with sites throughout Latin America and the Pacific Rim