Techniques for Creating Video Content for Radiology Education

Abstract

Video podcasts, or vodcasts, are an innovative tool for teaching and learning that allow the efficient distribution of tutorials, lectures, and other educational content. Certain types of content lend themselves to presentation in a video format. For example, vodcasts are well suited to teaching radiologic procedures. Vodcasts might also be quite useful in demonstrating the use of an audience response system and how one system differs from another, providing background content before an active-learning session, comparing magnetic resonance imaging pulse sequences, and teaching valuable interpersonal skills such as how to deliver bad news to a patient or how to maintain professionalism in the work environment. The authors present a step-by-step text-and-video tutorial on how to create, edit, and export vodcasts using a variety of software tools, describing both the "how" and the "why" of creating vodcasts. Interested readers are encouraged to examine both the print and online versions of this article to gain a more comprehensive knowledge of the ideas presented by the authors. Online supplemental material is available for this article.