title: A virtual university Web system for a medical school.
abstract: This paper describes a Virtual Medical University Web Server. This project started in 1994 by the development of the French Radiology Server. The main objective of our Medical Virtual University is to offer not only an initial training (for students) but also the Continuing Professional Education (for practitioners). Our system is based on electronic textbooks, clinical cases (around 4000) and a medical knowledge base called A.D.M. ("Aide au Diagnostic Medical"). We have indexed all electronic textbooks and clinical cases according to the ADM base in order to facilitate the navigation on the system. This system base is supported by a relational database management system. The Virtual Medical University, available on the Web Internet, is presently in the process of external evaluations.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Informatique Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Rennes, France.
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Séka
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Duvauferrier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fresnel
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Le Beux
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005602:France; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia; D009323:Natural Language Processing; D012577:Schools, Medical; D014584:User-Computer Interface