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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Med Students to Make Mouse Calls By Joanna Glasner, Wired
When a colleague proposed a plan two years ago for teaching medical students online, Dr. Stephen Smith admits he was a bit taken aback. "I thought, wow, this is a crazy idea," said Smith, associate dean at Brown Medical School in Providence, Rhode Island. A sound medical education, after all, traditionally requires some decidedly un-virtual activities, from dissecting cadavers to examining living, breathing patients. Outlandish as it initially appeared, however, Smith and fellow faculty members eventually warmed to the idea of providing some medical education online. Envisioning an opportunity for students in rural areas, Brown joined more than 30 other institutions to back the International Virtual Medical School, a pilot program for delivering medical education online.
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