Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of
Manitoba Libraries, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Internet for Health Finding what |
Interactive
Learning The World Wide Web facilitates interactive learning with the use of multimedia. The sites below cover how the Internet is used as a medium for delivering:
Virtual Interactive Consultation There are several good Internet sites that provide interactive patient simulations. These sites address the importance of developing the ability to diagnose illness quickly and accurately. The Interactive Patient University of Colorado Medical Rounds Medical Tutorials and Textbooks Material relating to medical education is increasingly made available on the Internet, as a result, traditional learning patterns and practices are changing. Lecture notes are now being published on the Internet for students to peruse at a more convenient time. Below are examples of educational material available on the Internet: Online Course in Medical Bacteriology The Virtual Hospital Pediatric Airway Diseases: a multimedia textbook Virtual Medical Centre Multimedia Medical Reference Library These Internet sites go beyond read-only hypertext tutorials. Principles of Protein Structure - Birbeck College This is a fee-based credit course on sequence analysis that includes work assignments, self-assessment exercises and tutorials that are conducted through e-mail and virtual reality discussion forums, such as BioMOO. MedWeb The MedWeb server can be used to read and answer a series of examination-type questions. When the test is completed and you click on the 'Mark' button, and within a few minutes the results are e-mailed to you. United Medical and Dental Schools Radiology (UMDS) Teaching File This site is intended to provide educational material for all radiologists in training. See also Virtual Hospital BioMOO BioMOO is a text and image-based virtual reality system for all members of the international biology community. GenomeMOO Health professionals with a specific interest in genome information will find the GenomeMoo a valuable source of information. |
NJMHS Library
| Ask
a Librarian | UofM Libraries
| UMinfo | Faculties
Send comments to Bill Poluha.
Bill_Poluha@umanitoba.ca
Content last updated: June 20, 1999
© 1997 Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library, University of Manitoba