A COMPUTER-BASED APPROACH TO EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN CLINICAL GASTROENTEROLOGY

Computer systems adapted to gastroenterology can effectively assist in organization of knowledge, clinical reasoning and competence, and manual skills. Computer-based methods and tools for medical education comprise systems for computer-assisted instruction (CAI), systems for clinical simulation (CS), and expert systems (ES). Computer-based methods in medical education are now so well defined and assessed that their use should be considered the necessary goal for coming years.