In this special issue on virtual biomedical universities and e-learning we will make a survey
on the principal existing teaching applications of ICT used in medical Schools around the …

Background: The medical curriculum has changed with the adoption of the student-centered
learning paradigm. Clinical reasoning learning (CRL) is used in order to develop and …

In this paper we present the design process of a collaborative environment for medical
education, named Virtu@ l Consult@ tion. The goal of this project is to allow students to …

A software framework for the development of Web-based medical education is proposed.
The objective is to optimize the development process by introducing Learning Objects (LO) …

Background: Constant assessment of the quality of health information on the Internet is an
absolute necessity as peer review is often lacking in this media. Objective: To develop a …

The main objective of this work is to help the management of training resources for students
using a pedagogical network available at the Medical School of Rennes. With the increase …

The UMVF project is a federation of medical teaching resources covering 32 medical
schools in France. Today, the indexing of these resources is carried out manually by the …

The impact of distant learning among plastic surgery physicians and residents is becoming
one of the hottest topics in the field of their education in general. An intuitive way to achieve …

Access to accurate and quality-controlled health information on the Internet for medical
students is not an easy task. CISMeF is the search tool of a MeSH-indexed directory of …

In this paper we present a collaborative and multimedia learning environment for medical
education, named Virtu@ l Consult@ tion. The goal of this project is to allow students to …