Objectives:

Attitude: To accept the value of the Internet in professional practice and education in Occupational Medicine.

Skills: To use the Internet as a professional and an Educational tool to complement and supplement other modalities of learning, teaching and assessment

Knowledge: To be aware of useful internet resources for Occupational Physicians.

Introduction:

What is the internet?

What are our competencies in this area?

Why do we need it? 

What is it good for?

Person to person communication:

E-mail  (including webmail)

E-mail groups/lists

Other

 

Seeking information:

Indiscriminate Search Engines

Searching collections of individually vetted sites:

General

Specific medical/health

Occupational Medicine

Official information

Searching the peer reviewed literature (NIH)  (BMA)

Databases

Other

Processing information, maintaining competencies:

Professional peer groups

E-mail groups/lists

'News' groups, Discussion groups etc

Educational resources

Learning and teaching

Other

 

Disseminating information and opinion

Advertising

Views

Other

What does the future hold/

For me?

For us?

Raymond Agius, 28 June 2001