A pilot project on RRTL is ongoing.  The project is a collaboration of the Department of Medical Physics at the Toronto-Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre in Canada and the Department of Radiology at the University of Malaya in Malaysia..  A class of Medical Physics graduate students at the University of Malaya attended lectures provided by lecturers in Toronto,  using the Internet as the main tool of communication. 

As part of the pilot study,  the different methods that can be used to provide the real-time interactive remote education were explored,  and various topics including traditional classroom lectures as well as hands-on workshops were also delivered.

The development of the process is continuing,  with connections and trials to other users in other parts of the world.   One of the features being explored is to assign different lecturers at different areas to deliver lectures.  Another feature is to establish a system similar to web-conferencing,  but with a much easier set-up and wider accessibility.

The indication thus far is that the concept of real-time interactive remote education is viable and holds promise for providing economical and practical tele-education to the Medical Physics community,  but depends heavily on the availability of the Internet in a lot of developing countries.

Some screenshots of the online sessions:

Powerpoint and Netmeeting:

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