Morin A, Benhamou A C, Spector M, Bonnin A, Debry C
Universite Paris V, France.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;104:213-9.
The work program of the French Language Virtual Medical University started about 2 years ago, and entered into a real active phase of development and implementation in 2002. Various national programs and organizational initiatives should accelerate and facilitate further appropriation of modem pedagogical approaches by knowledge providers and all users of the FSVMU, so as to advance on the way of virtual education. The French Language Virtual Medical University under the auspices of both the National Conference of Deans of Medical Schools and the International Conference of Deans of French-Speaking Medical Schools has been developed to create a major Internet portal for French-speaking distance medical learning and teaching. This construct should be representative of all medical schools in France and French-speaking countries. Contents will also be translated into English, Spanish and Arabic. All medical disciplines with their various levels of teaching are to be included. Cross-related fields are also going to be present in order to offer full range programs. The latter are intended to provide both initial and continuing education for medical students as well as all other categories of health professionals and medical and scientific research workers. To develop the appropriate technology and make such a portal, on one hand correspond to the specific educational requirements and proper training for health professionals, and on the other hand provide a general access to e-learning in all schools of medicine; in keeping with such goals, the following approaches should be stressed upon. To build a virtual space where individual patients, their families, patient associations as well as the general public, can obtain medical information of good quality for the purposes of both education and prevention. Providing such categories with reliable and validated sources of information, and offering an ethical basis for the increasing practice of e-medicine, represent in today's and tomorrow's world one of the great modern challenges for the medical community. Beyond the sole medical domain, the model offered by the FSVMU should be useful for the French-speaking Universities in all the fields of knowledge and training which are candidate to benefit from new educational means and methods.
法语虚拟医科大学的工作计划大约在两年前启动，并于2002年进入了真正积极的开发与实施阶段。各种国家项目和组织倡议应加速并促进知识提供者和法语虚拟医科大学的所有用户进一步采用现代教学方法，以便在虚拟教育的道路上取得进展。在医学院院长全国会议和法语国家医学院院长国际会议的支持下，法语虚拟医科大学已发展成为一个主要的互联网门户网站，用于法语远程医学学习和教学。这一架构应代表法国和法语国家的所有医学院。内容还将被翻译成英语、西班牙语和阿拉伯语。所有医学学科及其不同层次的教学都将被纳入。交叉相关领域也将出现，以便提供全方位的课程。这些课程旨在为医学生以及所有其他类别的卫生专业人员和医学及科研工作者提供初始教育和继续教育。为了开发适当的技术并打造这样一个门户网站，一方面要符合卫生专业人员的特定教育要求和适当培训，另一方面要为所有医学院校的电子学习提供普遍接入；为了实现这些目标，应强调以下方法。打造一个虚拟空间，让个体患者、他们的家人、患者协会以及普通公众能够获取高质量的医学信息，用于教育和预防目的。为这些群体提供可靠且经过验证的信息来源，并为日益增多的电子医疗实践提供伦理基础，在当今和未来世界是医学界面临的重大现代挑战之一。除了单一的医学领域，法语虚拟医科大学提供的模式对于所有有望受益于新教育手段和方法的知识与培训领域的法语大学都应是有用的。
