Contact: oslerbooks@sonic.net

The Firestone/Osler Project HomePage: Medical Internet 2000 Tutorial and Carrel

A Quik Project

Medical Applications on the Internet 2000 :
An Interactive, Web_Based Teaching Carrel

from www.oslerbooks.com

Moving IT Upward, Outward and Onward with IT3:

Keys to the Carrel: InformationTech, InstructionalTech & InternetTech

* THOUGHT OF THE DAY: Qualities of Heart and Head - Counsels from Osler

For the teacher and the worker a great library is indispensible.
They must know the world's best work and know it at once.
They mint and make current coin the ore so widely scattered in
journals, transactions, and monographs.

… Books and Men, p. 220

The dynamic features of this site are demonstrated using scripted searches, interactive quizzes, and Quik database publication. Open Source, thin client/Linux server technology powers this demonstration. We also feature PDF documents and e-mail applications that are virus resistant and free of the Love_Bug.

We do not collect or distribute user information.

Medically oriented Information and Instruction on the Internet
from Santa Rosa, CA, and Sonoma County
in the heart of the Redwood Empire wine country,
the new home of Telecom Valley.

| New to this Site | Power Point Presentations, News, and a behind the scenes look at this site. | HON | Health On the Net, a Swiss-based non-$ clearing-house, lists current medical events, sites, news and publications. | URL_DB | is a database engine that features managing and publishing lists of | Quik_Links | to quality Websites. The contents of published lists can be keyword searched. | Quik_Quiz | is based material from weekly CME presentations.
| PubMed | Profession medical literature citations with links to/from Scientific American and the NEJM. | MedlinePlus | packaged for the public by the NLM. | Google | Fast, Friendly and Commerical Free Internet Search Engine. Try "Firestone Carrel" | Site_Search | is a non-indexed keyword searching application of selected documents located on our server. Test using "Quiz" or "Gude". Site_Search #2 is a trial using an external commerical indexing service. Compare your results for speed, ease-of-use, display features and concurrency.
| Site Quik_Tour | An introduction to the Carrel Tutorial Schema. | CME Web_DB | A database tool used to produce and publish our CME Schedule. | Our July 2000 CME Schedule | : |August 2000 CME Schedule:| Collected,searched and sorted by Web_DB ,and published as a searchable Web document by our server. Searching on the document's content can be done using | Site_Search |. The monthly reports are also archieved as keyword indexed PDF documents that are Sherlock searchable using the Firestone computer.
| Featured Medical Sites |: Scienific American Medicine from Healtheon/WebMD who has a new CEO from ABC-TV; Judging the Web Docs according to Time magazine. | Pearls from the World of IT3 | A technology in education article presented as an annotated PDF document. | Carrel Introduction in PDF |

Site IT3 Intro in PDF

Quik_DB Tutorial by Acrobat

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The design trade-offs at this site have been influenced by Lynch, Nielsen and Greenspun