The year 2023 in preview: What’s in store for the BerlinCaseViewer?

New learning content: modules we have planned

In the near future, the BerlinCaseViewer app awaits you with exciting new learning units. In cooperation with the radiologist Wolfgang Fischer, there will be a training module for the knee joint, with emphasis on the meniscus. You may already be familiar with the doctor from Augsburg as the publisher and author behind the textbooks “MRI Essentials” and “MR Atlas”. In recent years, Wolfgang Fischer has published several books and an app on MSK radiology. His main focus is on orthopedic issues. For the BerlinCaseViewer he has developed a module on the subject of meniscus lesions, which will soon be available in our app shop.

Coming soon: MRI training with radiologist Wolfgang Fischer

Another overview module has been added to the previous introductory modules (e.g. on arthritis): The planned course deals with chest X-rays and gives anyone interested a simple introduction to radiology. We selected a total of 58 cases, divided into three modules, and annotated them with colored overlays. The case collection is aimed at beginners who want to improve their understanding of radiological examinations of the chest and lungs — also a great fit for medical students.

There has long been a close collaboration between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro, between our team in Germany and experienced radiologists like Aline Serfaty in Brazil. In our app shop, you can already find a comprehensive collection of cases from the field of musculoskeletal radiology, which Aline Serfaty has prepared for the BerlinCaseViewer and made available in both English and Portuguese.

This year, further learning content with a specific focus on Latin America will be added. The Brazilian radiologists will introduce us to diseases that are rare in Germany but more common in tropical and subtropical countries, including actinomycetoma, leprosy, tuberculosis and cysticercosis. In addition, there are diseases in connection with the Brazilian lifestyle, where, for example, football in particular and sport in general play an important part. Think for instance of cases with torn tendons in the pelvis and injuries to the knee.

More features and formats to come

We are working on continuously improving the BerlinCaseViewer — in terms of content and technology. That’s why you can look forward to more features in 2023. In the future, videos will complement the in-app presentation of our cases. You get advice from experts, and you can see how they would have solved the respective case — directly in the app.

In order to be able to offer even more learning content in the near future, we are opening up the BerlinCaseViewer for other professionals who would like to take part. Currently, we are working on a platform that will make it easier to upload and annotate cases.

Going forward, the effort we are putting into this should benefit even more people. Therefore, in addition to the individual module purchase, there will soon also be a subscription model that is of particular interest to university hospitals and other educational institutions in the healthcare sector.

Kind of similar to lecture hall learning, we are preparing a comprehensive curriculum for studying rheumatological imaging virtually — including video lectures and a collection of cases. For this purpose, the rheumatologists Denis Poddubnyy, Jochen Sieper and Gerd Burmester as well as the radiologist Kay G. Hermann are recording lectures and preparing cases of rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, spondyloarthritis, crystal arthropathies plus arthrosis.

BerlinCaseViewer on-site event: Rheuma Day in Berlin

For everyone who, in addition to learning with the app, would also like to meet our team of experts in real life, the next opportunity will be on March 24th (event in 🇩🇪). Together with the German Society for Musculoskeletal Radiology (DGMSR) we are looking forward to the first “Rheuma Day”. The event, which is all about imaging of peripheral and axial skeletal arthritis, takes place in Berlin with some home advantage. Unsurprisingly, we will also bring our training iPads with the BerlinCaseViewer technology and exciting cases with us. The registration form has already been activated and can be found at www.dgmsr.de. The regular participation fee is €150.00 and €130.00 for members of the DGMSR.