Medical Education Gets Wired: Interactive Media Laboratory Targets Patients and Physicians

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Medical Education Gets Wired: Interactive Media Laboratory Targets Patients and Physicians

Journal of the American Medical Association (12/11/96) Vol. 276, No. 22, P. 1788
Stephenson, Joan

Abstract: Among the multimedia programs developed at Dartmouth's Interactive Media Laboratory to help health care professionals, students, and patients deal with particular health issues, is a project on treating HIV and AIDS. "HIV and AIDS: An Interactive Curriculum," developed jointly by the Columbia University School of Nursing and Dartmouth Medical School, is designed to provide information about HIV to students pursuing health-related professions. Topics covered in the six-hour program include the virus' cycle, risk factors, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and psychosocial issues. The program combines video, text, music, charts, graphs, and other graphics, including an animated demonstration of how HIV attacks a cell. The personal experiences of four HIV patients are incorporated into the program, and viewers have four interactions with a simulated patient, a 20-year-old college student. A second version of the program for doctors and nurse practitioners is being developed.

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