メーリングリストによるe‐ラーニング : 心電図教育の実践

Mails of the same contents are transmitted to all the members at once, and a copy of the mailsimultaneously saved at a joint home page, when a member sends e-mail to a joint address of themailing list（ML）. Since transmission of the attachment file up to 1 MB is possible, around 20pictures, such as an electrocardiogram or an X-ray film, can be transmitted simultaneously. In amailing list, there is the strong point in which expense does not start at all, even when the numberof the members is very large.We started the electrocardiogram self-training system by ML in July, 2000. At present wehave 270 membership, and 3,653 copies of mail have been transmitted to ML in total. The numbersof the clinical cases showing interesting electrocardiographic findings presented in MLreached 360 cases.This method is applicable to the education of the image diagnosis of almost all areas in themedical field. I expect that The University of Tokushima Medical School and the TokushimaMedical Association introduce this system in order to promote the complement education of thefaculty students, and the postgraduate education of medical association members.