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mEduWeb – a webbased application for learning and trainingTheoretical education in oral medicine to dental students is usually given through lectures, books and scientific papers. Text books often present a small number of cases for each diagnosis and photographs may not always be in color. A textbook also covers a great variety of diagnoses, where many of them represent conditions that are rare and seldom encountered. Students may therefore receive information that does not reflect the reality a clinician in oral medicine encounters in daily practice.The clinical education is frequently limited to patient demonstrations and the students are seldom offered the possibility to monitor the patients over time during their basic training. The learning that comes with experience from treatment outcomes may therefore be missing when the student graduates. mEduWeb is designed to support this learning process in oral medicine. Since the database is created from the referrals, it shows the variation of cases at an oral medicine clinic. The students reach the database through the Internet. They can therefore practice and learn at any convenient time. mEduWeb contains search tools for the database and the student can identify cases for a given topic. The student can therefore find a large number of cases of several diagnoses, but also to combine the search with other parameters in the MedRecords protocol. This interactive nature permits the student to follow patients over time, test various hypotheses and display them in a diagram form. Diagnostic tests and exercises can be included and the student can perform these tasks through the Internet. Course information, lectures, edited cases and other relevant information can be added to mEduWeb. |
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