Gerard wrote:
> Subject: WEB-courses for physicians
> The KNMG (Royal Dutch Society of Medicine) has a project to introduce 2500
> and one year later 8000 docters to the Net.
>
> One of the many problems is how to organise courses for so many.
> An other is how much information is a minimum for my colleagues in order be
> able to use the WEB.
>
> There are two kinds of advice:
> - the WEB is so simple: do nothing. They will teach themselves. Provide a
> good site with lots and lots of information and URL's.
> - Doctors are such a special breeed, they need a course for 3 days in order
> to be able to use the WEB for their medical work.
>
> Who has ideas?
>
> References to ways of teaching the WEB?
> Of teaching the WEB to physicians?
>
> Courses available on: the WEB, on CD-ROM, on Video?
>
Alan Hassey and I have run introductory courses to the WWW, which
seem to have been well received. We take about 10 - 20 at a time,
and give them a VERY brief introduction on how to connect to the WWW
(MW) and then some interesting places to have a look at (AH); then
we 'borrow' one of the University's undergraduate teaching clusters
(about 100 PCs, each with an Ethernet connection to JANET and then
the Internet) and give them their head. (For obvious reasons you can
only do this out of term time!)
In general terms, they latch on very quickly, and also get used to
asking for advice very quickly. After about three hours, they seem
to be fired up and ready to go on their own.
Mike Wells
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