Educational program in cardiac sounds

ABSTRACT

Medical school has been through several modifications until it reached its current model. However, with its development and the introduction of new teaching techniques that aims to move students towards actual medical practice, instead of just delivering course content, some problems began to emerge. For example, in some situations, students cannot learn by a patient analysis because that could be considered an invasive process, involving high risk procedures and ethical issues. Nevertheless, the difficulties found in medical education cannot hinder the process of educating new doctors. Thus, it is necessary to use appropriate educational methods and technologies. An incipient technology is the utilization of multimedia educational programs, which integrate multimedia resources and offer the user an active participation in the learning process.

An educational program, discussing the pathological and physiological aspects in cardiology, is in implementation on UNIFESP's distance education website, in which we are also going to assess the use of handheld computers, or PDAs, by health students. These devices are potentially useful in distance education and offer several benefits, being the reduced size its main feature.

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Keywords:
distance education, educational program, handheld computers, internet, medical education, multimedia educational program