Computers have been used in the diagnosis and treatment of illness for many years, but only recently have they aided in the instruction of physicians in training. Over the last three years we have used computers to assist in post-graduate Gastroenterology education by creating multimedia teaching tools.
Videoendoscopy is digitalized into still images and video. Pathologic slides and radiologic studies are scanned and added to the endoscopy data. We have brought this together with traditional didactic information into a multimedia production.
We use readily available multimedia authoring, digital image and video editing software and to create lectures, stand alone teaching modules, a digital library and a CD-ROM based atlas of the lower GI tract. The result is interactive teaching materials that combine all aspects of multimedia to aid in the teaching of gastrenterology.