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{"title":"Health Sciences Online: Eight+ Revolutions and Ten+ Brief Analyses","authors":"E. Frank","doi":"10.2174/1876519X00801010001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2174/1876519X00801010001","url":null,"abstract":"Objective: There are many outstanding computer-based resources for medical education, but good materials are difficult to find in the flood of mediocre and questionably-sourced resources, and many good materials are currently passwordprotected. This article introduces a potential solution to many of these problems: Health Sciences Online (www.hso.info). Method: A qualitative description of a new learning tool, and the societal changes it could precipitate. Results: HSO is the only health sciences website with comprehensive, free, high-quality, ad-free, and current courses, references, and other resources. HSO already includes >50,000 such resources, but it is not just a huge, screened online library. We outline eight potential revolutionary areas for HSO: health sciences education, disease surveillance, public health ethics, integrity, needs assessments, telemedicine, local professional opportunities, and funding. HSO also responds to the World Health Organization's March 2008 \"10 Facts on Health Workforce Crisis,\" and we briefly analyze these facts and HSO's responses in our concluding analysis section. Conclusion: HSO has the potential to revolutionize health sciences knowledge, as well as multiple other areas in medicine, public health, and other health professions. The problem: there are many outstanding computerbased resources for health sciences education, but good materials are difficult to find in the flood of mediocre and questionably-sourced resources, and many good materials are currently password-protected. This article comments on a solution to some of these problems: Health Sciences Online. HSO is the only health sciences website (www.hso.info) with comprehensive, free, high-quality, ad-free, and current courses, references, and other resources. HSO already includes >50,000 such resources, searchable in and with text translated into 22 languages, but it is not just a huge, screened online library. Below we outline eight potential revolutionary areas for HSO: health sciences education, disease surveillance, public health ethics, integrity, needs assessments, telemedicine, local professional opportunities, and funding. HSO also responds to the World Health Organization’s March 2008 “10 Facts on Health Workforce Crisis,” [1] and we briefly analyze these facts and HSO’s responses in our concluding analysis section. HSO is a virtual learning center designed for health scientists in training and practice, founded in 2001 (by the author) and officially launched in 2008. It provides browsable and searchable access to materials donated, hosted, and maintained by our distinguished content partners. Founding collaborators and funders for this site include WHO, World Bank, NATO, the Canadian government, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Medical Association, and others, with materials and collaborations from governments, professional societies, businesses, *Address correspondence to this author at the University of British","PeriodicalId":304672,"journal":{"name":"The Open Medical Education Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126667226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}