McGill putting curriculum online

McGill University's Faculty of Medicine will be the first medical school in Canada to put its first- and second-year curriculum online. Thanks to a $3.75 million gift from the Molson Foundation, the school will use an emerging discipline known as medical informatics to improve medical education, research and patient care. A multifaculty group headed by Dr. David Fleiszer, McGill's assistant dean of medical informatics, will determine the best way to use computers in teaching and learning. The multimedia approach is expected to provide students with realistic scenarios and simulated clinical situations.

| CMAJ February 15, 1996 (vol 154, no 4) |