title: Medicine and television.
abstract: 1997 is the 50th anniversary of the first use of television for medical teaching and the 40th anniversary in Britain of an experimental 2-hour demonstration of pre-clinical teaching by colour television, of the use of large screen television for medical conferences, and of the presentation on national television of programmes aimed at modifying the public attitude to mental illness and to medicine.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Essex-Lopresti
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D013690:Television / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom