Avowed cost5/28/2023 "We've done a lot with digital video, surgery and training videos and 3D animation (in the classroom)," he says. To that end, Malinowski is working to include more media in education. "It's given me a lot of insight as to how to apply classroom technology to learning theories," he says. In fact, he's working on a PhD in educational technology. "The informatics group in veterinary medicine is pretty small-only around 50 or so people specialize," Malinowski says.īeyond promoting his field, Malinowski focuses on streamlining and improving veterinary education at MSU. We're catching up, but we're still behind." The other issue, he says, is the number of people just like him in the field. "It's cost-prohibitive for practices to implement those types of things. ![]() ![]() "Medical informatics encompasses everything from PACS to electronic medical records, which are pricy," he notes. Implementing such a system has its costs, however, which is why Malinowski says the veterinary profession lags behind human medicine in informatics. "It connects plain films, MRI, ultrasound, etc.," he says. The system, which stores images electronically, was one of Malinowski's first ventures after finishing his master's in 2003. Now he not only runs the IT center, but is also an assistant professor and administrator of the school's Picture Archive and Communications System (PACS). "I've always been a computer geek at heart." That geek-like proclivity led him to begin the master's program just a week after completing his DVM. "At the last minute, I got involved in medical informatics-the fusion of information technology and medicine," he notes. Although he jumped from specialty to specialty in school-including stints focusing on small-animal surgery, large animal and two rotations in small-animal critical care-Malinowski returned to his love of technology. It's inconvenient to haul a box of dog bones around."Ĭombining ease of learning with technology has been a focus for the Michigan native, who decided on a veterinary career in junior high school. "I made a program so you could get a virtual bone box. He put the photos into a program that "stitched it all together," he says. A camera system rotated the bones 10 degrees at a time and photographed each angle. To aid the learning process, Malinowski photographed the main bones of the canine skeleton while on a turn table. "When I went through the anatomy program, I had difficulties remembering every origin insertion, muscle and bone," he recalls. ![]() He developed a 3D anatomy of the dog to create a virtual bone box. ![]() Malinowski embraced that outlook early in his career when completing his master's thesis. "Technology is an enhancement for the classroom," he says. There, he combines his DVM training along with his master's degree in telecommunications, digital media art and technology, both earned at MSU. Malinowski, 33, heads the Information Technology Center at MSU's veterinary college. Students entering the College of Veterinary Medicine at Michigan State University (MSU) expect to sit in lectures and attend labs, but thanks to Robert Malinowski, DVM, the use of technology both in the classroom and out is enhancing courses and changing the way students are receiving information.
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