Introduction to the Electronic Textbook for Cutaneous Diseases

The diagnosis of cutaneous disorders depends mainly on the visual observation of skin lesions. To make accurate diagnoses, extensive experience with a number of different pathological states is required. An atlas that contains a wide range of pictures of cutaneous disorders is one way to gain indirect experience. However, the textbooks usually used for this purpose are inappropriate. With recent developments in computer science, which have made it possible to show many pictures relatively easily, a number of electronic textbooks have been published in medicine, especially in Western countries. However, most of these texts are simply modifications of earlier textbooks, and consist of text descriptions with a few added pictures, a practice that does not make the most of the benefits an electronic textbook can offer. In Korea, the Korean Dermatological Association as well as individual dermatologists have published several textbooks, including the 'Atlas of Skin Disease'. However, there has been no attempt to make an electronic textbook containing numerous images of cutaneous diseases with their descriptions. In 1986, we began to compile an electronic textbook for cutaneous diseases and completed it under the name the 'eBook of Dermatology', in 2004. It consists of 29 chapters, covering 1,116 diseases. Twenty-three dermatologists participated in collecting the 4,028 pictures, and writing the descriptions, which are given in the following form for each disorder: definition, cause and pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, pathologic features, diagnosis and differential diagnosis, and treatment.

The Creation of Dental Radiology Multimedia Electronic Textbook / 대한구강악안면방사선학회지

PURPOSE: This study was performed to develop the electronic textbook (CD-rom title) about preclinical practice of oral and maxillofacial radiology, using multimedia technology with interactive environment. MATERIALS AND METHODS: After comparing the three authoring methods of multimedia, i.e. programming language, multimedia authoring tool and web authoring tool, we determined the web authoring tool as an authoring method of our electronic textbook. Intel Pentium II 350 MHz IBM-compatible personal computer with 128 Megabyte RAM, Umax Powerlook flatbed scanner with transparency unit, Olympus Camedia 1400L digital camera, ESS 1686 sound card, Sony 8 mm Handycam, PC Vision 97 pro capture board, Namo web editor 3.0, Photoshop 3.0, ThumbNailer, RealPlayer 7 basic and RealProducer G2 were used for creating the text document, diagram, figure, x-ray image, video and sound files. We made use of javascripts for tree menu structure, moving text bar, link button and spread list menu and image map etc.. After creating all files and hyperlinking them, we burned out the CD-rom title with all of the above multimedia data, Netscape communicator and plug in program as a prototype. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: We developed the dental radiology electronic textbook which has 9 chapters and consists of 155 text documents, 26 figures, 150 x-ray image files, 20 video files, 20 sound files and 50 questions with answers. We expect that this CD-rom title can be used at the intranet and internet environments and continuous updates will be performed easily.

A Design of Electronic Textbook Using the Multimedia Data Server / 대한의료정보학회지

Clinical education is difficult for actual practice of medical students. In particular, the practice in the field of obstetrics is more difficult to many students. Moreover, the education of sub-fields of obstetrics such as birth or abortion needs many materials of women's reproductive organs. However, the ordinary paper-based textbooks have some limitations for clinical education of obstetrics. The electronic textbook system based on multimedia data enables that many student, doctor, and public user overcome these difficulties, as a computer assisted learning. We developed multimedia database system which is connected with web using ODBC(Open DataBase Connectivity)and ASP(Active Server Page)/IDC(Internet DataBase Connection). Many text and multimedia data are gathered in the database. This system serves various multimedia data using internet and intranet in the student's class or home. In conclusion, providing multimedia data of obstetrics using ODBC, ASP/IDC method reduce the limitation of clinical education. This model of the electronic textbook would be a reference to develop multimedia database on the network.