USE OF THE INTERNET FOR TEACHING IN NUCLEAR-MEDICINE

The Internet provides several new capabilities for education in nuclea r medicine, including learning at a distance, facilitation of collabor ation, increased availability of training resources, and ability to de velop interactive teaching materials. Dedicated case-authoring softwar e aided development of digital teaching files at the Mallinckrodt Inst itute of Radiology and the Joint Program in Nuclear Medicine. Accesses to these two teaching files from sites around the world have grown ra pidly. Improvements in the speed of the Internet will allow inclusion of more images at higher resolution and more extensive use of cine. De velopment of server-based software will allow simulation of the actual image-reading environment. A better understanding of how to use this new media will spur continued expansion in use of the Internet for nuc lear medical education. Copyright (C) 1998 by W.B. Saunders Company.