Resumen de Applying Hypermedia to Medical Education:: An Author's Perspective

M.R. Kidd, G.A. Hutchings, W. Hall, B. Cesnik

• Interactive learning by computer is adopting an increasingly important role in medical education in many countries. Traditional methods of medical education can be enhanced and augmented by the addition of self‐directed computer‐assisted learning. While it is desirable for specialists in a medical content to create their own computer‐based teaching programmes, authoring with hypertext and multimedia can pose significant difficulties for non‐computer programmes. This paper describes how the authors approached the design and creation of a medical education programme on sexually transmitted diseases using StackMaker, a new hypermedia authoring environment.