History of Doit

Profile of Dermatology Online with Interactive Technology (DOIT)

 

Acting Officers 2015

 

Günter Burg, M.D., Zürich, Founding Editor,
Peter Itin, M. D., Basel, Chief Coordinator
Lars French, M.D., Zürich, President EDF, Chairman of the DOIT-Leading House
Harald Gollnick, M.D., Magdeburg, Undergraduate Training Managing Board of the EDF
Martine Bagot, M.D., Paris, Undergraduate Training Managing Board of the EDF
Peter Schmid, M.D., Zürich, IFD Contact
Vahid Djamei, IT (SWISS4WARD)

 

 

Statistics 2015

26'000 registred users from 160 Universities in 60 countries

 

 

Milestones

 

1998

Web-based (html ) Lecture on Dermatology and Venerology (G. Burg)

 

2000

Swiss Virtual Campus-Projekt #991017 launched; Founding Editor: Günter Burg, M.D., Department of Dermatology, Zürich. Co-Founders: Lasse Braathen, M.D., Bern; Peter Elsner, M.D., Jena; Renato Panizzon, M.D., LausanneTheo Rufli, M.D., Basel; Stephan Lautenschlager, M.D., Zürich; Programming: Vahid Djamei, Zürich

 

2002

Editing of the Swiss Catalogue of Learning Objectives (CLO), based on the Dutch CLO. 2nd edition 2008

 

2003

1st Release of DOIT

 

2006-2008

Swiss Virtual Campus-project ceased. Acquisition of Sponsors: Baugarten-Foundation, Zurich; Georg and Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker-Foundation, Zurich; Ernst Göhner Foundation, Zurich

 

2009

2nd Release of DOIT

 

2011

Revision German and English

 

2011

3rd Release of DOIT www.cyberderm.net

 

2012

Installation of a local DOIT-server at the Nepal Medical College Teaching Hospital of Kathmandu University in Nepal

 

2012

Founding of the DOIT-Association

 

2012

Agreement and Lizensing with the EDF; cont. 2015. Implementation of the EDF/DOIT-Managing Board and the EDF-Review-Board

 

2012

Editing of the WebBook (German Ed.)

 

2011

1st of Doit Mobile

 

2013

Tax-Exemption of the DOIT-Association by the office of the Kanton Zürich

 

2013

EDF Erasmus+ Grant Requests (Harmonized European Dermatology Undergraduate Training by Strategic Partnership, HEDUSPa)

 

2015

Flyer DOIT/EDF released

 

Awards

 

2004

Finalist, European Contest, Paris

 

2005

Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW) e.V. http://www.gmw-online.de: Medida-Prix Finalist, Rostock

 

2006

GMW: Medida-Prix Finalist, Zürich

 

2009

GMW: Medida-Prix Winner, Berlin

 

2012

DOIT selected as eduGain (www.edugain.org) prototype project for “interfederation” access in a Network of Universities

 

 

Evaluations and Surveys

 

2005

Undergraduate students of Medicine, Zürich

 

2007

SurveyMonkey Questionnaire

 

2009

Chappius at rete

 

2010

Faculty of Medicine, Zürich

 

2015

SurveyMonkey Questionnaire

 

2015

University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, School of Business and Informatic

 

 

Translations from German or English and Revisions

 

2003

French: Constance Pournaras, M.D., Lausanne

 

2004

English: Walter Burgdorf, M. D. , Munich

 

2005

Portuguese: Roberto Azambuja, M.D., Brasilia

 

2006

Spanish: José Mascaro jr, M.D., Madrid

 

2007

Revision of the German and English versions

 

2009

Italian: Marina Papoutsaki, M.D. and Antonio Costanzo, M.D., Rome

 

2015

Chinese: Huiting Dong, M.D.,Z; Chin He Liu, M.D., Zhe; Jiangan Zhang, M.D., Zhengzhou, China

 

Technology

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd versions of DOIT was a web-based proprietary program, worked out by Vahid Djamei and Arpage, Zürich. It was based on the lecture documents of Günter  Burg, written in HTML by Reto Schaffner, M.D., Zürich.
The 4th version of DOIT is a web-based platform using the Java-based Content Management System of Magnolia.The Platform supports two types of authentication / authorization, user and role management: simple and federated, based on the Federated-SSO standard called  Shibboleth. DOIT Mobile is based on Appcelerator Framfork. Game Design: P Vuarnoz, SP Walz, U Rigonalli, School of Art & Design and ETH, Zürich.

 

Sponsors

Swiss Virtual Campus-Projekt #991017 (2000-2006); Swiss Universities; Baugarten-Foundation, Zurich; Georg and Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker-Foundation, Zurich; Ernst Göhner Foundation , Zurich

 

 

Organigram

organigram
  1. EDF: Martine Bagot, Paris; Lars French, Zürich; Harald Gollnick, Magdeburg; John McGrath, London;
  2. DOIT: Günter Burg, Zürich; Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier, Zürich; Lars French, Zürich; Vahid Djamei, Zürich. The DOIT Association is the owner and copyright holder of the DOIT platform
  3. Delegates of the National European Societies (28)
  4. Assigned by the EDF Board (3-5)
  5. Founding Unversities; Zürich (Leading House), Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Zürich Triemli and Jena