Korean J Obstet Gynecol.  1998 Jul;41(7):1949-1956.

"Electronic Textbook of ""Abortion"" in Clinical Education of Obstetrics"

• Park MI
• Ryu KY
• Park JS
• Jeong KM
• Hwang BH
• Han SH
• Choi BW

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
The ordinary textbook has some limitations for clinical education of medicine. This study attempts to serve electronic textbook including multimedia data in the field of obstetrics. The methodology and framework of electronic textbook system including internet and intranet network would be discussed.
METHODS
The multimedia database of obstetrics consists of six main classfications, such as text, table, figure, image, photo, moving pictures. For the internet and intranet service, we use Internet Information Server 3.0 (IIS 3.0) based on windows NT server and SQL server 6.5 for database management. For connection of multimedia database with internet network, the ASP and IDC methods are used. RESULT: The electonic textbook system of `Abortion` was completed using above solution. Update of data is possible for an instant. Many other advantages for clinical education were resulted. This system mainly consists of multimedia data for solving the difficulties of clinical education and gives easy access to database via Web for all students regardless of their place.
CONCLUSION
Many student and doctor access this system using Web to study `Abortion` in the field of obstetrics. The class of the college was successful for overcoming many limitations of ordinary textbook system. Now we are ongoing for further development of this system.

Keyword

Electronic textbook, Abortion; Internet and Intranet; Computer assisted learning

MeSH Terms

Computer Communication Networks
Education*
Humans
Internet
Multimedia
Obstetrics
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