title: The electronic medical-student exchange: a low-cost alternative to overseas electives.
abstract: The authors report on an international collaboration that uses the Internet for medical education. In addition to introducing the students to electronic communication, the project aims to further international collaboration and understanding and to emphasize the importance of a population perspective for health and disease. Students and professors in Canada, England and Hungary participated.
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003195:Computer Communication Networks; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007393:International Educational Exchange