title: ALERT: a clinical case simulator program for serious, communicable, and rare diseases.
abstract: ALERT is an intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) based on clinical case simulation. Its purpose is to assist in the training of general practitioners regarding the diagnosis and the control of serious, communicable, and rare diseases, such as anthrax, plague, and smallpox. ALERT provides both monitoring techniques and treatment protocols and is structured into two independent sections: one devoted to the simulation of the clinical case and the other to detailed description of disease.
authors.affiliation: Faculte de Medecine Saint-Antoine 27, rue Chaligny, 75571 Paris Cedex 12, France.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Brai
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Valleron
mesh_terms: D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003658:Decision Making, Computer-Assisted; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control; D005103:Expert Systems; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D012984:Software