6th ESACP Congress, Heidelberg, April 7-11, 1999

A119
WELLPATH: WELCOMING ENVIRONMENT FOR LIFELONG LEARNING IN PATHOLOGY
Sampedro A, Martínez-Nistal A, Rubio R, López-Alastruey J, Torreblanca A

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WELLPATH is a friendly virtual environment for training/learning in Pathology, which is being used as back-up material in classroom lectures as well as for Open, and Distance Learning (ODL). WELLPATH includes a database engine (Internet raining-Learning Management System) which offers additional services as: access to the information, navigation, communication between participants, searching, remote updating, reuse of the information, and different access rights, depending on the user. At present four kinds of modules have been prepared: Tutorials: oriented to presentations of concrete themes. Clinical-pathological sessions: clinical discussion, pathological presentation and discussion forum. Seminars: oriented to lifelong learning in pathology. Short courses: Including several sessions, e.g. Gynaecological Cytopathology for doctors and technicians. WELLPATH is already working in the University of Oviedo, and accessible for everyone in the Internet address http://www10.uniovi.es.