Norman J N, Brebner J A, Brebner E M, Lloyd O L, Ruddick-Bracken H, El Sadig H Ahmed M, Catto G R, Ledingham I M
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, United Arab Emirates.
Med Educ. 1995 Nov;29(6):403-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1995.tb02861.x.
The use of telematics in the practice of medicine has received much recent attention but little has been written about the use of these techniques in medical education. This is a report of a pilot study in which an interactive video-conference took place between medical students at the UAE University and their opposite numbers at Aberdeen University. In Aberdeen, the Dean of the Medical Faculty simultaneously taught Aberdeen and UAE students on a clinical case. He was able to confine his activities largely to the correction of misconceptions, the emphasis of important points and the addition of missing information, while the students themselves conducted most of the presentation. The UAE students presented their Community Health projects and had a spirited discussion on them with the Aberdeen students. Recent technological advances have so improved the quality of transmission of both visual and auditory images and at reasonable cost, using the ISDN telephone system, that the feasibility of using this medium as an aid to teaching has suddenly materialized. The experiment showed that the technology was adequate for easy, fully interactive teaching among students from different continents and with different cultural backgrounds. It is particularly suitable for the Arab world where it is the custom to teach males and females separately. The pilot study has pointed out the existence of a medium of communication and teaching which, if proved to be effective, could have far-reaching consequences in the undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of medicine.
远程信息技术在医学实践中的应用最近备受关注，但关于这些技术在医学教育中的应用却鲜有著述。本文报告了一项试点研究，阿联酋大学的医学生与阿伯丁大学的医学生进行了一次互动视频会议。在阿伯丁，医学院院长同时为阿伯丁和阿联酋的学生讲授一个临床病例。他能够将自己的活动主要局限于纠正误解、强调重点和补充遗漏信息，而大部分展示由学生自己完成。阿联酋的学生展示了他们的社区健康项目，并与阿伯丁的学生就这些项目进行了热烈的讨论。最近的技术进步极大地提高了视觉和听觉图像的传输质量，而且使用综合业务数字网（ISDN）电话系统成本合理，以至于将这种媒介用作教学辅助手段的可行性突然成为现实。实验表明，这项技术足以实现来自不同大陆、具有不同文化背景的学生之间轻松、充分的互动教学。它特别适合阿拉伯世界，因为在那里男女分开授课是一种习俗。这项试点研究指出了一种通信和教学媒介的存在，如果证明它是有效的，可能会对医学本科和研究生教学产生深远影响。
