Abstrakt
The teaching process in medical genetics should be practically oriented and interactive, and electronic tools help to enhance both these aspects. We have prepared two tools for medical genetics education.
The tool "Pedigrees" is based on DHTML. It helps students to become familiar with pedigree construction.
The tool has two versions - one for use in seminars where students work together with their teacher, and where the tool serves as a support of pedigree construction during the discussion of types of inheritance. The second version is conceived for individual home study. "Pedigrees" is incorporated into the Learning Management System "Moodle", and is accompanied by theoretical information, diagrams and examples.
The program "Genomics and Bioinformatics" is based on HTML and AJAX technology. It allows medical students to solve a cascade of several problems in clinical and molecular genetics using Internet databases and on-line data analysis servers.
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