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Advances in information technology. Implications for medical education.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  9614791     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Few kinds of technology have had as broad an impact on the recent affairs of humanity as have information technologies. The appearance and rapid spread in the past several years of innovations such as the Internet's World Wide Web and the emergence of computer networks connecting tens to hundreds of millions of people worldwide have occurred with startling rapidity. These global events portend substantial changes in the delivery of health care, the conduct of biomedical research, and the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education of health professionals. This report will attempt to succinctly review the following: (1) the characteristics of modern information technologies and recent trends that are most relevant to medical education and to the world in which future practitioners, researchers, and educators will live and work; (2) the implications of these technologies for the development of educational goals (in other words, the specific information technology skills that future health professionals will need); (3) the issues associated with the use of these technologies in the process of education; and (4) implications for near-term action by University of California medical schools and academic medical centers.
Authors:
D R Masys
Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Review    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Western journal of medicine     Volume:  168     ISSN:  0093-0415     ISO Abbreviation:  West. J. Med.     Publication Date:  1998 May 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1998-07-06     Completed Date:  1998-07-06     Revised Date:  2009-11-18    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0410504     Medline TA:  West J Med     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  341-7     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine 92093-0602, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
California
Computer Communication Networks
Computer-Assisted Instruction*
Data Display
Delivery of Health Care / trends
Education, Medical / methods*,  trends
Forecasting
Humans
Medical Informatics Applications*
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