Communication, Simulation and Intelligent Agent:: Implications of Personal Intelligent Machines for Medical Education

To appear inProc. of the American Association for Medical Systems & Informatics, 1983 Reprinted by permission of the American Association for Medical Systems and Informatics (AAMSI). Hardware advances in the next decade promise to make poss:*ale new medical educational technologies. New media for expressing, collecting, and sharing knowledge will provide students with means for coping with the increasing amounts of information. Novel means of graphically modelling physical phenomena--providing motivating and intuitively pleasing means for explorative interaction--could complement and sometimes replace traditional text material. Intelligent programs may serve as assistants, serving roles ranging from calculator to librarian to tutor, embracing a full range of secretarial and problen solving aids.