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Collaboration Using Internet for the Development of Case-Based Teaching Files: Report of the Computer and Instrumentation Council Internet Focus Group

Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Loyola University Medical Center, Loyola University, Maywood, Illinois
West Los Angeles Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Correspondence: For correspondence or reprints contact: J. Anthony Parker, MD, PhD, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, 330 Brookline Ave., Boston, MA 02215.

ABSTRACT

The Internet and particularly the World-Wide-Web is becoming a useful tool for the nuclear medicine community. Methods: The Computer and Instrumentation Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine convened an Internet Focus group to discuss collaboration using the Internet. The prototype application considered was development of case-based teaching files using the World-Wide-Web. Teaching file cases (clinical history, images, description of findings and discussion) on World-Wide-Web servers at different institutions are integrated using the Internet. The user can navigate from case to case using point-and-click hypertext linking. Results: The initial experience with collaboration has been encouraging. An etiquette to help foster collaboration has been proposed. Development of quality control mechanisms and introduction of peer review were identified as issues needing further work. Conclusion: The World-Wide-Web offers great potential for new forms of collaboration. There is, however, a need to learn how to make best use of this new resource.

Key Words: teaching files • Internet