creators_name: McClennen, Seth
creators_name: Nathanson, Larry A.
creators_name: Safran, Charles
creators_name: Goldberger,  Ary L.
type: journale
datestamp: 2003-03-17
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:14
metadata_visibility: show
title: ECG Wave-Maven: An Internet-based Electrocardiography Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians
ispublished: pub
subjects: meo-peer
full_text_status: public
keywords: medical education; health professional education; peer-reviewed; Clinical science education; Informatics/Web; ECG; education; teaching tools
abstract: Purpose: To create a multimedia internet-based ECG teaching tool, with the ability to rapidly incorporate new clinical cases.
Method: We created ECG Wave-Maven (http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu), a novel teaching tool with a direct link to an institution-wide clinical repository. We analyzed usage data from the web between December, 2000 and May 2002.
Results: In 17 months, there have been 4105 distinct uses of the program. A majority of users are physicians or medical students (2605, 63%), and almost half report use as an educational tool.
Conclusions: The internet offers an opportunity to provide easily-expandable, open access resources for ECG pedagogy which may be used to complement traditional methods of instruction
date: 2003-02
date_type: published
publication: Medical Education Online
volume: 8
number: 2
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   McClennen MD, Seth and Nathanson MD, Larry A. and Safran MD, Charles and Goldberger MD, Ary L.  (2003) ECG Wave-Maven: An Internet-based Electrocardiography Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/2834/1/t0000030.pdf