Teleteaching for medical education: why and how to do it

Abstract

Teleteaching aims to help universities and nonacademic institutions improve, update and upgrade their educational programs for a better control of health care cost-effectiveness in developed or developing countries. A multicontinental multilingual service therefore could be offered through multimedia information superhighways and telebroadcasting networks. Attractive programs can be made combining conventional lectures, workshops, talk-shows, reality-shows, teleconferencing and teleproctoring formulae similar to techniques used in ordinary show-business. When the problems of moral and financial sponsoring are solved, teleteaching will create a new job mixing medical and nonmedical specialists of telecommunications aiming to offer highly professional medical educational shows.