Sir David Carter, Chief Medical Officer for Scotland officially opened
the Surgeons Internet Cafe
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/library/internetcafe.htm at The Royal College of
Surgeons http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/ of Edinburgh today, Friday 28th August.
The cafe will give access to modern IT technology for college fellows
and doctors. The program of courses for the Internet cafe is at
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk/Diary/calcours.htm
During the opening ceremony Professor Wallace (vice President of the
RCSEd) showed e-mail messages from Orthopod List
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/orthopod/ . Professor Maran (President)
was present at the opening ceremony. Professor Wallace showed images
from the following orthopod cases and discussed the power of the
Internet. Marianne Smith (Librarian) demonstrated the college website.
Cases:
1. Alexander N. Chelnokov RUSSIA [log in to unmask] Sun, 1 Feb 98 -
Clavicle Fracture
2. Randale Sechrest USA [log in to unmask] June 27, 1998 -
Fracture through Knee fusion
3. Mangal Parihar INDIA [log in to unmask] Mon, 10 Aug 1998 - Tibial Plateux
Fracture
All these cases can be found on the orthopod archives
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/orthopod/archive.html
The Surgeons Internet Cafe at the Royal College of Surgeons is a
resource which will be the base for the information technology meetings
already being held regularly at the college and may become a useful
"bolt-on" facility to delegates to other types of meetings such as
Educating Consultants.
Situated in the heart of the College's magnificent Playfair building,
the College Library already has an excellent collection of surgical
texts, journals, videotapes and compact disks and medical databases,
suitable for the full range of needs of surgeons - from study material
for candidates aspiring to Fellowship to the Continuing Medical
Education of Fellows, Associate Fellows and Diplomates. It is a natural
development that we should now extend the range of tools and services to
include the internet, with all its possibilities, and the various
standard software. There are web sites all over the world which have
information of interest and use to doctors and surgeons - to all in
fact. The facility to send and receive email is one which has many
benefits and is still unfamiliar to some. The access to word processing,
slide design, scanning, database and spreadsheet software is available
in a pleasant and quiet environment.
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Chris Oliver FRCS (Orth) DM
Director Faculty of Medical Informatics
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk
Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit
http://www.orthopaedic.ed.ac.uk/cwo.htm
Chris Oliver FRCS (Orth) DM
Director Faculty of Medical Informatics
http://www.rcsed.ac.uk
Edinburgh Orthopaedic Trauma Unit
http://www.orthopaedic.ed.ac.uk/cwo.htm
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