Introducing HEAL: the Health Education Assets Library.

Full Abstract

Digital multimedia, such as images and videos, are playing an increasingly important role in health sciences education. Educators, however, often do not have the time or resources to create high-quality materials. The authors describe the development of a new Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), a freely accessible, national library of high-quality digital multimedia to support all levels of health sciences education. HEAL's primary mission is to provide educators with high-quality and free multimedia materials (such as images and videos) to augment health science education. In addition, HEAL is working with other organizations to establish a network of distributed databases of high-quality teaching resources. By using state-of-the-art Internet technologies HEAL enables educators across the country to efficiently search and retrieve teaching materials from a variety of sources.

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Author information

Author/s: Candler, Chris S (CS); Uijtdehaage, Sebastian H J (SH); Dennis, Sharon E (SE);

Affiliation: The University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73104, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article; Review

Journal: Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Acad Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 78 (issue 3) : pp 249-53

Dates: Created 2003/03/13; Completed 2003/04/09; Revised 2005/11/16;

PMID: 12634201, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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Education, Medical - methods
Health Education - methods
Humans

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