Walker J, Thomson A, Smith P
Division of Community and Rural Health, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia.
Int J Med Inform. 1998 Jun;50(1-3):287-91. doi: 10.1016/s1386-5056(98)00081-1.
Attracting and retaining medical and allied health professionals to rural and remote regions is a perennial problem, world-wide. It is exacerbated by the associated problem of providing high quality, cost-effective educational and clinical support to health professionals and trainees located in such areas. The world wide web is being used as a tool to address these twin problems to provide a means of communication, interaction and educational and clinical support to geographically dispersed and isolated pools of users. An interactive electronic notice board has been developed as a clinical problems' discussion forum to act as a venue for critical debate about clinical issues and to provide a searchable archive of information to assist in the management of clinical problems. A description of the forum will demonstrate the potential of the world wide web as a learning and a clinical support tool.
在全球范围内，吸引并留住医疗及相关健康专业人员到农村和偏远地区工作一直是个长期存在的问题。为地处这些地区的健康专业人员和学员提供高质量、具有成本效益的教育和临床支持这一相关问题，使情况更加恶化。万维网正被用作解决这两个问题的工具，为地理位置分散且孤立的用户群体提供沟通、互动以及教育和临床支持的手段。一个交互式电子布告栏已被开发出来作为临床问题讨论论坛，充当关于临床问题进行批判性辩论的场所，并提供一个可搜索的信息存档，以协助处理临床问题。对该论坛的描述将展示万维网作为学习和临床支持工具的潜力。
