Postgraduate medical education by distance learning

Abstract

Postgraduate medical education by distance learning Emphasis was placed on tutorial teaching. Student reaction was evaluated from questionnaires and the interaction between the participants was measured. The teaching method proved to be popular with the teachers and students and a generally high level of interaction was achieved.

This system is relatively inexpensive and considerable financial savings to the Health Service could be achieved, whilst at the same time it provides opportunities for instruction by specialists whose teaching can be made widely available to numbers of postgraduate students that would otherwise find difficulty in attending, say, day release courses at the teaching centre.