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The purpose of the Online medical school is to

1. prepare students for real medical school, they can take the online courses and see if this is something they really want to do. Is the material too hard to comprehend? Can you connect with the material? Would learning this material first give you an edge when you actually went to medical school and made your medical school experience a lot smoother?

2. Students who don't have awesome memory could watch the online videos and acquaint themselves with the knowledge, so that when they take the actual courses in real life, they learn the material much easier. There are people who want to be doctors, but dont have rapid memory, it takes some people longer to put things in their long term memory.

3. A place for students to review material on courses they are taking in real live medical schools, if they are in a tough class and want to go over some of the materials they learned they can do so by watching videos on the subject or reading transcripts or even looking at really high resolution digital images online.

The purpose of an Online Medical School is to provide a world class education, imagine making class room videos from the best professors in the world and having the ability to re-watch, rewind, fast forward and access text word transcripts from a single web site. Imagine noble prize winning professors teaching classes and having access to these videos to watch as many times as you want.

Every medical book in the world could be scanned using high resolution scanners and put online in the PDF format (with authors permission of course) and made available for people to download for a fraction of the price a normal printed book would cost. As it stands now if you can get 70 to 80% of every medical book from a file sharing site or bit torrent file sharing service. I'm not going to advocate doing so if it is illegal for students to downloaded copyrighted books, but I believe there is a fair use clause, i'm just attempting to illustrate that right now you can pretty much get any medical book online if you hunt hard enough.

What I am suggesting is that every basic sciences class be video'd using a high resolution video camera and converted into digital formats which could be streamed on the Internet, downloaded from the Internet or mailed to someone on a DVD.

Along with downloading the videos, one could download PDF books and interact with online training guides, tests, quizzes study guides. There would be live chat rooms, discussion forums and other interactive Internet tools people could use to communicate, collaborate, discuss, there are even audio chat rooms and online conference software students could use.

I'd also like to suggest this Online medical school have audio files that people can download and put on their Ipod or other MP3 / MP4 devices so that people can listen and review their courses when they are traveling, in the car or in some circumstances where they can listen but not necessarily look at a video screen.

How many basic sciences courses actually require the necessity of you being present? I could see the need to be present for classes such as Anatomy if you are dissecting a body, or other classes like pathology if you are looking at slides through a microscope. However, the question remains the same, why do you need to be present for those classes? Aren't there enough high resolution images of the human body you could easily study at home on your computer? Why can't one look at pathology slides over the computer?

Students can even schedule meetings with adjunct professors over skype and talk about problems or use web cams to go over problems and issues.

Last edited by AlwaysDreaming; 05-03- at 12:15 PM .