title: ECG Wave-Maven: An Internet-based Electrocardiography Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To create a multimedia internet-based ECG teaching tool, with the ability to rapidly incorporate new clinical cases.
  
  
  METHODS
  We created ECG Wave-Maven ( http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu ), a novel teaching tool with a direct link to an institution-wide clinical repository. We analyzed usage data from the web between December, 2000 and May 2002.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In 17 months, there have been 4105 distinct uses of the program. A majority of users are physicians or medical students (2605, 63%), and almost half report use as an educational tool.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The internet offers an opportunity to provide easily-expandable, open access resources for ECG pedagogy which may be used to complement traditional methods of instruction.
authors.affiliation: a Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Seth
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: McClennen
authors.affiliation: b Department of Emergency Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Larry A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nathanson
authors.affiliation: c The Center for Clinical Computing , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Safran
authors.affiliation: a Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Ary L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Goldberger
keywords: ECG; education; teaching tools