title: Designing an interactive multimedia rich tutorial for medical students: beyond a 'book on a screen'.
abstract: This article describes the development of an interactive online tutorial that enables pre-clinical medical students to develop and practice clinical skills such as history taking, examination, investigation and formulating a diagnosis. The development of this multimedia product consisted of four stages: (1) identifying the educational objective (2) content design (3) multimedia build (4) product testing, revision and incorporation into the curriculum. As a result of this development process, the tutorial was seen by students as genuinely student-centred in design and innovative in the way it takes advantage of the technology of the internet.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Medical School, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland. hemal.thakore@ul.ie
authors.forename: Hemal
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Thakore
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McMahon
mesh_terms: D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate / Q000379:methods*; D018961:Educational Technology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019212:Multimedia