title: [Education via the Internet: preliminary experience of the hematology-oncology discipline of the ABC Foundation School of Medicine].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In order to foster the use of the Internet by our medical students, we devised a virtual test to be taken by the whole class during the Hematology-Oncology course given in the third year.
  
  
  METHODS
  Through a specially designed home page in the Internet students were asked questions regarding their personal characteristics, knowledge of basic Internet skills and were also given a short virtual course on line on the use of the Internet.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We noted that only 53% of our students had used the Internet before. The use of the Internet was correlated with having more members of the household accessing the net (p < 0.001) but not with the student's sex, age or family income.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most of the students reacted favourably to this educational experience through which about half of them got acquainted with the use of the Internet for the first time.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Fundação ABC, São Paulo, SP.
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Moura
authors.forename: M G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Lhano
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Del Giglio
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003197:Computer Literacy; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006405:Hematology / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000193:education*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires