initiatives

 Albany Medical College Virtual Brain Atlas       

2009 Symposium: Neuroimaging Advances and their Application to Medical Education

The June 2009 symposium focused on “Neuroimaging Advances and their Application to Enhancing Medical Education”.

Keith Schneider, PhD, Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri discussed Recent advances in structural and functional MRI. The presentation outlined the history of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) use in the neurosciences and advances in measurement.

Tara Lindsley, PhD, Professor and Joseph Rozelle, student at Albany Medical College gave an overview and demonstration of the 3D MRI-defined virtual brain atlas for medical neuroanatomy teaching and learning that was developed at Albany Medical College. The software is available for free license and download at: http://www.amc.edu/academic/software .  

John Kubie, PhD, Associate Professor, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and Co-Chair of the AMSNY Neuroscience Educators Consortium discussed Developing Interactive Image-based Quizzes. Dr. Kubie demonstrated the Neuroquiz software developed at SUNY Downstate. The quiz software and brain atlases are available for download at: http://www.downstate.edu/neuroscience_materials/ .

2010 Symposium of the Neurosciences Committee

 A second symposium is being planned for June 8, 2010 from 9:00-11:30 AM at New York University School of Medicine. The symposium will have a dual focus: Anticipated Changes in the Format of the USMLE Exam and how they may impact Neurosciences Curriculum and Behavioral Neuroscience Curricular Issues.