In this project as the partners are northern Europeans, English will be the working language. It is recognised that on a European wide basis this would not be the case, but in the short timescale available it is considered better to concentrate on the technical and medical issues. If there was a further opportunity then the language issue would be tackled. Circumstances of practice are the main area to be covered in this project. With regard to content , the emphasis of teaching and training differs in the various countries, so that medical graduates may find themselves differently prepared to the local practitioners.
Some standard treatments are likely to vary between countries.
Organisation refers to the relationships between the public and private sectors, the medical and paramedical services, and the community support from the social services. Management deals with the everyday requirements of an efficient medical practice e.g. prescribing, statistical returns and bed-management for routine and emergency admissions. The main project aim is to conduct a feasibility study of the issues when live interactive case-studies are transmitted over communications networks. The educational environment shall comprise live interactive teaching over the network, associated with the preparation of multimedia learning materials. The World Wide Web, will be used to make these material and other relevant information available to students during the non-synchronous times of the teaching.