*** Reminder: Consultation on PathCAL learning materials ***
Dear Colleagues
You may be interested in this consultation regarding the PathCAL online
learning materials. This resource is targeted at those undergraduate and
postgraduate students that are required to study pathology. I would also
very much welcome your feedback on this resource.
Kind regards
Brian Mitchell
JISC Collections Promotion Manager
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Consultation on: PathCAL bank of 115 web-based tutorials on the biology
of disease (developed at the University of Edinburgh)
Response required by 15 April 2005 at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_pathcal.html
JISC and the University of Edinburgh invite expressions of interest from
all academic institutions regarding an agreement to provide PathCAL.
PathCAL is a set of web-based tutorials designed to help students
understand the basic pathological principles of disease by exploiting
techniques in learning psychology. They can be used by beginners for
learning the subject for the first time or by more advanced students for
review and self-assessment. Target users are Undergraduate and
postgraduate students of medicine, dental surgery, veterinary medicine,
biology, pharmacology, nursing and other healthcare and biomedical
sciences related subjects. The aims of PathCAL are to guide students on
how to approach the study of pathology and medicine, apply general
pathological principles to body systems, recognise certain
abnormalities, understand the meaning of certain question types and use
correct terminology. PathCAL also aims to give students feedback on
their knowledge and understanding and their ability to reason through
pathological problems.
Pricing
The level of pricing per annum for PathCAL is as follows:
JISC Band Year 1 Prices Year 2 Prices Year 3 Prices
Bands A-B £475 £475
£475
Bands C-D: £450 £450
£450
Bands E-F: £400 £400
£400
Bands G-J: £300 £300
£300
The final pricing levels will be largely dependent upon the levels of
interest in the product from the community. All prices exclude VAT. The
proposed costs are subject to approval from the JISC Content & Services
Committee. Trial Access For a free trial of this resource please email
mailto:[log in to unmask] Remember to include the name of the
resource in the subject line!
Please note that there are some special terms and conditions associated
with this trial access as follows:
• Strictly 1 account per person - they should not be shared
• All users must agree to abide by the University of Edinburgh’s
computing regulations each time they log in
• Users are only getting access to the student view of PathCAL -
the tutor/developer tools are not available as part of this
demonstration
• The service they are seeing is the University of Edinburgh's
local service and as such is subject to local service conditions and
variations
• The logins will persist until May 2005
More information and the online response form can be found at
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/coll_PathCAL.html.
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Brian Mitchell
Collections Promotion Manager
Joint Information Systems Committee
King's College London
Strand Bridge House
3rd Floor
138-142 Strand
London WC2R 1HH
Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1736
Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2939
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