title: Application of the RealAudio package to computerized medical lectures.
abstract: We created a multimedia system to computerize past lectures using RealAudio software. Physicians, medical researchers and students can browse the contents of lecture slides and handouts with synchronous audio using the Internet. The audience can easily review the most interesting parts of lectures and medical students can listen to complete medical lectures from remote sites with narration and slide depiction, whenever convenient. We have created three multimedia programs; the memorial lecture of a professor's retirement, a new method of hand washing for surgical procedures and a lecture on medical informatics. The cost of this system and the results of the evaluation by medical students are described. The ease of using this application makes it a potentially valuable tool for clinicians and researchers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Niigata University Medical Hospital, Niigata University, Japan. hashiba@med.niigata-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hashiba
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Inagawa
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsuto
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Motonaga
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamakawa
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Akazawa
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D007564:Japan; D019212:Multimedia; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012984:Software / Q000191:economics