Computing and Media Services:
Computer-Aided Instruction

See also: Computing and Media Services, Computers, Computing Resources, Classrooms.

This is a list of the most important computer-based curriculum assistance programs available from Computing and Media Services. For a complete listing, visit the CMS desk in Dana, or search Dartmouth's Online Catalog.

Brainstorm, an interactive program for the understanding and review of neuroanatomy, developed by medical personnel at the Stanford University Medical Media and Informational Technologies center (SUMMIT). Structures can be examined through gross dissections, cross-sections, diagrams, or text-based informational screens.

The Cardiovascular System, a modular teaching resource exploiting multimedia technology. Module Two, Cellular Mechanism in Cardiac Physiology, covers pre-clinical curriculum fundamentals on the cellular physiology of the heart. Module Three, Cardiac Muscle Action and Blood Flow, covers pre-clinical curriculum fundamentals of cardiac muscle action and blood flow.

Embryo Images. An interactive tutorial designed to teach mammalian embryology primarily covering three to eight weeks post-fertilization. It is unique because it uses scanning electron micrographs as its image base. The three dimensional-like quality of the SEM micrographs promotes a better understanding of complex morphological changes than is possible by simply studying diagrams.

Heart Sounds and Murmurs is a multimedia program integrating actual heart sounds and dynamic images to illustrate the physiology of normal and diseased heart sounds. Contains 135 clinical and diagnostic tutorials from the case files of a major teaching hospital.

Histology: A Photographic Atlas, an electronic videodisc atlas containing over 7,000 original color photographs of cells, tissues, and organs as seen through the light microscope. Although the focus is primarily on mammalian and human histology, there are also photographs of non-mammalian tissues and organs and some photographs of plant material.

Interactive Electrocardiography (ECG). Based on Dr. Stephen Scheidt's widely used book, this software uses Dr. Netter's colorful illustrations, enhanced by animation and additional graphics, to present complex principles of electrocardiography in an easy-to-understand manner.

Interactive Embryology. Animated movies, with interacting diagrams and text, simulate development of the embryo and its various systems and organs. The movies portray developmental processes and tissue movements that some students have great difficulty in understanding from serial sections, diagrams, and descriptions in textbooks.

Interactive Lab Practical - Clinical Anatomy uses color photographs of human cadavers and labeled diagrams to help you master human anatomy. Review your knowledge and test your ability to identify "flagged" structures with either the tutorial or simulated test modes.

Microscopic Anatomy incorporates digitized histological slides and electron micrographs with comprehensive text to provide one of the most useful study aids for cell biology. This is a user-friendly program geared toward the needs of students and instructors alike.

Dr. Frank Netter's Interactive Atlas of Human Anatomy contains all the Netter anatomy illustrations from the highly acclaimed book, in a dynamic interactive software format. More than 900 illustrations covering the anatomy of the entire human body: head and neck, back and spinal cord, thorax, abdomen, pelvis and perineum, and upper and lower limbs.

Slice of Life. Several commercial and locally produced applications (HistoTime, HistoVideo Atlas, CIMAS, and others) are linked interactively to some of the 40,000 images on Slice of Life VI videodiscs. There are videodisc workstations in Dana and in Matthews-Fuller.

Slice of Brain I, a two-sided videodisc encyclopedia of stills (20,779) and motion sequences (151) assembled as a resource for neuroscience education. A generic, multi-purpose videodisc designed to be incorporated into a host of instructional designs, software tutorials and tests, learning environments, hardware configurations, and curricula. Used in conjunction with HyperBrain in the Dana third floor computer area.

Other titles: The Animated Embryo, Histology Time, HyperBrain, the Neurological Atlas, and many more.