title: Using Microsoft producer to facilitate web-based learning in an anesthesiology training programme.
abstract: Computerized multimedia teaching methods, including web-based learning, have become popular because the learner controls the content, the time, and place of learning. The purpose of this article is to describe specifically how a clinical department is using Microsoft Producer to convert PowerPoint presentations into Internet-ready multimedia lectures. The importance of these Internet-ready multimedia lectures to the didactic activities of an anesthesiology residency programme is also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston 02118, USA. rortega@bu.edu
authors.forename: Rafael A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Ortega
authors.forename: Glynne
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stanley
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Snavely
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000193:education*; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software