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Hello, I'm Jim Ousman, a creator and founder of SI Digital, which is a new video journal of neurosurgery and neuroscience. I'd like to tell you how you can get the most out of this new video
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journal. I'll take you to the website right now. This is the website. This is what you do. You put in SI Digital dot org, and
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it will come up and show you the home page of SI Digital. It's a journal, which is not a two-dimensional paper journal, but it's a journal that shows real time discussion of information rather than
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just more information that you can find useful in your practice. 85 of the diseases in the world occur in the low to middle-income countries. where most of the population of the world lies. So this
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is a journal that not only appeals to high-income countries, but also people in the low-income countries. The information is all free to look and download. Next, we have a list of features, more
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than 30 new features. We've added to the SI digital program. I'm gonna go over most of these in this brief talk so I can get you acquainted with how to, you can get the most out of the website. At
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the bottom of this announcements page, you'll see new program additions. This is a program addition in which we interview leading a neuroscience neurosurgery people around the world. And this is
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talking with Tim Closie, a neuro oncologist about what's the global treatment of low gliomas extending from surgery to radiation to new molecular therapy, which has shown a high chance of cure of
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these lesions. You'll talk about what can be done and what's best done in different locations around the world. An Ancy Epstein is starting another series here, which is Contourista's in Spine
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surgery, where she discusses approaches to the lateral C-spine lesions in a very nicely done lecture with good graphics and concludes after a view of the literature, the posterior approach is a safe
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approach, virtually no complications, than the anterior approach UCLA the is which, added we've series another have We. 101 Neurosurgery and Neuroscience Lecture Series. Leading neurosci people
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in neuroscience or neurosurgery are giving talks in many aspects of the field. I hear what is the latest developments in any one of these fields We also have. a number of programs targeted at
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low-to-middle-income countries. We went to Iraq to Baghdad and worked with the neurosurgeons there who since the war 20 years ago, have developed some very advanced programs, very innovative
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solutions in
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a resource-limited environment. They show you how you can develop a neuro-navigation system from the internet at very low cost Another takes us through
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500 cases of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery in really a world-class program. And the third is they have Gamma Knife experience with over 5, 000 cases in many centers that are treating a
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patient with all the data concentrated in one center to give you an experience with a large volume of patients. We also have started another feature investigative reports. discussing controversial
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issues that are not well developed, getting leading people in the world with a factually documented analysis of many of these controversies. The first one we've chosen is what every physician should
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know about COVID. We expect to have a video, summaries of what are the new features or the new additions to the program every week so you can follow that. So you can go up here, click on the X,
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click off and you come to the homepage. This is a video which if you select them from the 10 videos on the site, we'll show up as a video that you wanna see. Over here are the 10 most recent
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additions to the website. You can see them all here. And it goes on through tiers of 10 each up to 90 videos It's one where you can look for them. Second thing you can do, if you want a particular
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topic, is you can put in, oh, I'll put in my name, and you click here, and it will then rapidly through artificial intelligence, sort out all the videos that cover the subject that you're
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interested in seeing. At the top of the page, you see here, an item called select language. SI digital can be translated into 10 languages You see them listed here. Let's say we pick French. And
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you see the entire website is then converted to French language. We'll go on and pick Nancy's talk.
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Nancy's talk comes up here on the website. This is the main video I told you about. And we can go and look at
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the video by clicking on that arrow You can see that the closed captioning here. is also translated into French. So we have that topic go up here, click on the small X that puts it back in English,
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and we'll pick another lecture on the history of cerebrovascular disease. All the lectures are
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accompanied by a short abstract summary of what the lecture is so you can sample what the discussion is about so you can decide what to read Underneath that, here is a transcript. You can view the
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transcript which is printed out in the language that you choose. This is an English year of the entire talk. So you can take that transcript, print it out in your home computer, and you can store
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it for a reference. You can add notes to it, and it can be a very valuable use to you. All the talks are peer reviewed, but in addition to this, rate the talks by everyone who has looked at the
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website and looked at the video. Those ratings come out here in a five-star system. Up here, we also have another feature, which is the audio content of the talk. If you click on this and you're
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a multitasker, you will hear the audio content, you turn up the audio, you will hear the audio content of the talk, you can go about doing other things while you're listening to the talk. You can
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see that we have added here the video count, which is the number of people that have looked at the video, the number is low because we've just activated this feature. And you can go over to the
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talks here and you can see the timestamps. This is a two hour talk, whatever doctors should know about COVID, but we've divided into two sections of roughly one hour each. And so that's another
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metric you can use to decide with the time you have available, what the best talks are. and how you can get the most out of them. If we go over to the program list here, you see here's a program
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which is a three hour summary of a meeting with a number of different speakers and goes here on the major feature here. A number of the speakers, a Baghdad talk and also a talk from on the future of
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neurosurgery and medicine, something you might wanna look at. All of these talks from the meeting are in the meeting, but they're represented individually and talks so you can look at them
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individually rather than looking at the whole meeting. Here is an example from the UCLA 101 series, Topics of Interest in our Surgeons. In addition, we have another series here
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by Jorge Lazarus on the fundamental basics of doing research. What are the principles of research? How do you do it? What kind of reasoning do you do? and it's a seven series lecture series on
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that topic. So these are the features that we have. If you go up to the menu portion here, you see instructions for authors and how you submit videos so that you may have them included on the
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website. Here is a special video series. We're going to have the 1, 200 hernostemic operative videos on the website You can look at them there on SNI now. There'll be an SNI digital. This is 101
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neurosurgery 101 lecture series and we have complete meetings or the separate talks. We have talks for young neurosurgeons and students, YNSS, if we've labeled that and the controversies we've
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talked about. When you're finished, if you'd like to leave questions, you report an issue with the website feature that you'd like us to add or you wanna contact us with some suggestions or
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questions. You put, you do this, you put in your email, you put your message in, it'll go to the home office and we will respond to you with that. So we hope you'll find this to be a very useful
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new video journal of information. We believe in getting discussion with information rather than just more information so that you can learn it more in detail and understand the subject that we're
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talking about. We hope you like it and enjoy it. Thank you for being with us.
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