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Med Educ Online. 2003 Dec;8(1):4339. doi: 10.3402/meo.v8i.4339.

ECG Wave-Maven: An Internet-based Electrocardiography Self-Assessment Program for Students and Clinicians.

Medical education online

Seth McClennen, Larry A Nathanson, Charles Safran, Ary L Goldberger

Affiliations

  1. a Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.
  2. b Department of Emergency Medicine , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.
  3. c The Center for Clinical Computing , Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School , Boston , Massachusetts.

PMID: 28253171 DOI: 10.3402/meo.v8i.4339

Abstract

PURPOSE: To create a multimedia internet-based ECG teaching tool, with the ability to rapidly incorporate new clinical cases.

METHOD: We created ECG Wave-Maven ( http://ecg.bidmc.harvard.edu ), a novel teaching tool with a direct link to an institution-wide clinical repository. We analyzed usage data from the web between December, 2000 and May 2002.

RESULTS: In 17 months, there have been 4105 distinct uses of the program. A majority of users are physicians or medical students (2605, 63%), and almost half report use as an educational tool.

CONCLUSIONS: The internet offers an opportunity to provide easily-expandable, open access resources for ECG pedagogy which may be used to complement traditional methods of instruction.

Keywords: ECG; education; teaching tools

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