ABSTRACT
In a preceding study, we had reviewed and evaluated the anatomy sites available on the Internet. The evolution of the available sites, the disappearance of certain sites and the appearance of new sites led us to update this list. In addition, the German-speaking sites were included in the study, which previously included only the Anglophone and French-speaking sites. Forty-eight sites were indexed and their addresses are available on the site of the Laboratory of Anatomy of the Faculty of Medicine Lyon-Nord (http://rockefeller.univ-lyon1.fr/Anatomie-Lyon- Nord). Compared to the scores allotted in 1998, we noted in 1999 a significant increase (p = 0.03) in the total score (12.13 +/- 2.98 vs. 11.23 +/- 2.28/20), which shows that the quality of the anatomic sites available on the Internet has improved.
Subject(s)
Anatomy/education , Education, Medical/methods , Internet , Teaching Materials , Teaching/methods , Humans , Reproducibility of Results , Retrospective StudiesABSTRACT
The Internet undoubtedly has an important part to play in medical teaching, generally speaking, and particularly in anatomy. We therefore undertook to survey, list, explore and study the various sites written in French or English devoted to anatomy on the Internet in order to evaluate them. Sites were identified from their URL address, by search engine or by hypertext links found in already listed sites. Useless and non-relevant sites were excluded. Fifty-two sites were selected and evaluated as to their navigability, illustrations, text and general presentation. Addresses of theses sites are available on a web page (http:/(/)www.rockefeller.univ-lyon1.fr/Anato mie-Lyon-Nord; section liens, section Galerie Virtuelle). This directory could be a very useful working tool for the use of teachers and students. It will be regularly updated.
