Robert Trelstad, MD Professor and Chair, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Most physicians and educators agree that computers are worthwhile investments for medical schools. They have revolutionized access to information and allowed institutions to incorporate self-learning tutorials into their curricula. In some cases, computer-simulated surgical procedures are being used to train physicians. At the same time, many institutions with hopes of developing computer-based curricula are struggling to overcome a lack of financial resources and administrative support, as well as faculty reluctance.
Education becomes more efficient.
Yet some medical schools hesitate to jump head-first into the computer age, noting that the costs are high and the technologies are unproven. Rather, he says, the issue is how technology can be used reasonably and most effectively for the money invested. D.C. Supporters believe that computers are changing the way schools teach medicine and allied health professions, fostering a more active learning process as opposed to the passive learning of lecture classes. Computer-enhanced medical education is definitely the wave of the future, according to W. Bosseau Murray, an associate professor of anesthesia at Penn State University's Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. We would like to give a student more easily diagnosable and planned examples.