Continuing medical education on the World Wide Web

Abstract

The WWW, with its hypermedia capability, has afforded a new medium for delivering text, images, and graphics. It becomes an ideal platform for disseminating CME materials. One advantage of CME information on a WWW server, is its potential for user access on their own time (asynchronous mode). The worldwide distribution of the Internet permits an efficient method of information dispersion, one "instructor" (server) for a multitude of potential students. The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) Department of Pathology has undertaken a project to provide CME through the World Wide Web. The primary goal of the project is to provide CME to uniformed services physicians especially those in remote sites in the continental United States and overseas. A secondary goal is to serve physicians and allied medical practitioners in the civilian sector. It is also intended to be a training tool for pathologists and other diagnosticians.