E-learning is recently considered as a critical strategy to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of education. Although the use of e-learning has been growing rapidly in medical education, there are not sufficient data applying e-learning and evidence of the effectiveness. The purpose of the study is to review the recent literatures on applying e-learning in medical education settings and t...

CLINICAL SCENARIO You are a primary care practitioner considering the possibility of anticoagulant therapy with warfarin in a new patient, a 76-year-old woman with chronic congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation. The patient has no hypertension, valvular disease, or other comorbidity. Aspirin is the only antithrombotic agent that the patient has received over the 10 years during which ...

The medical web comprises both medical communities engaged in discussions about specialized topics and a vast array of medical articles available through web-based databases. In this paper we present a knowledge linkage strategy that links online specialized medical discussions with corresponding online medical articles. The idea is to link the experiential knowledge generated in online medical...