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Revista Cubana de Informática Médica
On-line version ISSN 1684-1859
Abstract
ELIAS GARCIA, Yileika; MARTINEZ LEGON, Zoila de la C.; BROCHE HERNANDEZ, Aimé and MENENDEZ ALVAREZ, Ernesto. OPHTATLAS. Ophtalmological cuban atlas. RCIM [online]. 2013, vol.5, n.1, pp. 42-53. ISSN 1684-1859.
Computer technology developments have allowed the introduction of new methods for teaching in the Cuban medicine schools. Educative software used as an instrument to make the knowledge process easier among medical specialities is nowadays a fact in our university. This project consists in an educative software complementary to the teaching of ophthalmology for both medicine students and ophthalmology resident, which includes audio-visual materials, for clinical and surgical ophthalmology. Crheasoft tool is used for the final product achieving a combination of audio and visual elements. Taking into account the ancient proverb: "It's more important to see once than to hear a hundred times", this interactive atlas provides a support and consultation educative material that could be useful for a more individual teaching. The software has a friendly interface that permits an easier navigation allowing information interchange and interaction between the users and the application.
Keywords : atlas; ophthalmology; software.