title: [The importance of Internet in medical education].
abstract: Internet is more and more involved in medical education in many countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina. Not only medical student but also physicians are using Internet to find out the latest information in specific field of medicine. Some sites are specially designed to be used for medical education. Information about some programs or courses of medical education can be found here. Improvements of network resources and multimedia technologies have made it possible to satisfy needs for medical Education. Multimedia approach offer possibility to show text, picture, sound or movie considering specific need. All of that is available on Internet. Many search engine are available in the world and student can use all of them when they have access to Internet. The more precise search can be done on specific sites that include information about medical conditions and medical education. The most important is MEDLINE. MEDLINE is bibliographic database of National Library Of Medicine in USA. This database can be explored from several sites. All relevant information about article can be find here including abstract and service to obtain full text of specific article. Database can be searched using specific keywords that can be find in text or in MESH thesaurus. Data about authors, their addresses and title of article can be found, too. The possibility of using Internet in medical education are considered in this article. Some of Internet sites are described, too.
authors.affiliation: Centar za medicinsku informatiku, Medicinski fakultet Univerziteta u Sarajevu.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pandza
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masić
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Knezević
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet
vernacular_title: Znacaj Interneta u medicinskoj edukaciji.