Doctors' Experience in Learning from Web-Based Compared with Print-Based Materials

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What is the problem and what is known about it so far?

Doctors need to keep their medical knowledge up-to-date. Recently, the number of Internet or Web-based teaching materials available to doctors has grown tremendously. …

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  1. Ann Intern Med June 20, 2000 vol. 132 no. 12 938
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