title: Experimenting with new paradigms for medical education and the emergence of a distance learning degree using the internet: teaching evidence-based medicine.
abstract: This paper is focused on designing and developing a teaching environment associated with an introductory course in evidence-based medicine designed for undergraduates. Attempting to break away from the traditional educational model based on acquisition of factual knowledge, we developed a software tool centred on content management, student assessment and feedback. We ran this course on an educational website, using chat rooms and electronic mail for trainer-trainee communication over one academic year. The website served as a repository for knowledge and information and presented freestanding web-based interactive study modules and a non-interactive degree course. Trainers and trainees responded favourably to the computer applications and the Internet. This project demonstrated the feasibility of computer-aided learning and the advantages of distance teaching over the Internet.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire d'Enseignement et de Recherche sur le Traitement de l'Information Médicale, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée Marseille, 27 boulevard Jean Moulin 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France. mfieschi@ap-hm.fr
authors.forename: Marius
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fieschi
authors.forename: Gérard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Soula
authors.forename: Roch
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giorgi
authors.forename: Joanny
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gouvernet
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fieschi
authors.forename: Geneviève
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Botti
authors.forename: Françoise
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Volot
authors.forename: Yvon
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Berland
mesh_terms: D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D017145:Models, Educational