Acknowledgements
National Library of Medicine
Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications
Educational Technology Branch
Project Director:
James W. Woods, Ph.D.
Computer Programming:
Robert J. Irons, B.S., M.P.A.
Marie Gallagher-West, B.S.
A brief history of the Basic Medical Pathology Project
In the Fall of 1980 when Dr. Woods left the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences to become Director of the National Medical Audiovisual Center at the National Library of Medicine, he took with him two video tapes that he and Dr. Robin Jones had made to assist with the introduction of medical students to microscopic pathology. In early 1981 those videotapes were used by Dr. Woods to master a pilot optical videodisc. Dr. Woods then wrote computer programs (in APPLE BASIC) to control a videodisc player (Pioneer LD V7820) in order to present the material as self study modules for medical students.
Image quality on the videodiscs (mastered from 2 inch videotape that had been made by copying the three quarter inch UMatic tapes from Arkansas) was sub standard. Subsequently Drs. Woods and Jones wrote scripts and produced prototype programs on "Cellular Alterations and Adaptations" and "Cell Injury".
After field testing these two programs for a period of about two years (starting with 12 schools and 12 student work stations in August, 1983), eight additional lessons were produced and in 1993 a second edition of the first two programs were completed.
Over the years the field testing network grew to eighty odd schools operating over 300 student workstations in the U.S., Canada, England, Spain, Lithuania, Puerto Rico, Grenada, and the Philippines.
In the early 1990's, the computer programs, orignally written by Robin Moore and Dr. Woods at the National Library of Medicine, were re written [under contract] by Roberts Irons in a relational database language (CLIPPER) in order to give local faculty maximum control of lesson content and presentation. Marie Gallagher West at NLM wrote additional code (including STATUS.EXE) and in 1993 she made all software, including the User Manual, available for distribution via Internet. Distribution of the programs and data collection on diskettes was discontinued except for som non U.S. sites.
Basic Medical Pathology Videodisc-based Learning Modules
Database Version 2.03, Oct. 25, 1993
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Title |
Author |
Date
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Cellular Alterations and Adaptations |
R.R. Jones, M.D., Ph.D.1
|
6/838 |
|
Cell Injury |
R.R. Jones, M.D., Ph.D. |
6/838
|
|
Necrosis |
R.R. Jones, M.D., Ph.D. |
5/88
|
|
Thrombosis, Embolism and Infarction |
J.M. Byers, M.D.2 |
6/88
|
|
Edema, Congestion and Shock |
L.D. Johnson, M.D.3 |
1/89
|
|
Chronic Inflammation and Wound Healing
|
L.D. Johnson, M.D. |
1/89 |
|
Acute Inflammation: Exudates and Phagocytosis
|
W.H. Chase, M.D.4 |
3/89 |
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Acute Inflammation: Chemical Mediators
|
W.H. Chase, M.D. |
3/89 |
|
Neoplasia: Benign and Malignant States
|
R.H. Shikes, M.D.5,7 |
8/90 |
|
Neoplasia: Metastasis and Differentiation
|
G.J. Miller, M.D., Ph.D.5 |
3/90 |
|
Cellular Accumulations |
J.M. Byers, M.D. &
L.A. Wheeler, M.D.,Ph.D.6 |
?/93 |
1University of Arkansas for Medical Science, College of Medicine
2University of Arizona, College of Medicine
3University of South Carolina, School of Medicine
4University of British Columbia, Faculty of Medicine
5University of Colorado, School of Medicine
6University of Indiana, School of Medicine
7Question database by M. Wineinger, M.D., S.H. Hendrix, M.D., W. Soohoo, M.D., University of California, Davis, and G.W. Richter, M.D., University of Rochester
82nd. Ed. published 1993
Note: Originally, the first two titles were issued on a two-sided disc. They were re-mastered in 1988 as one-sided discs. (The second editions of the first two titles were issued in 1993). All titles are now issued as single-sided discs.
