The Hippocrates Project is a program of the
New York University
New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin.
In 1832, the ...
Medical Center which works with modern technologies to "enhance the learning process". It was established in 1987, presumably named after the
ancient Greek
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physician
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Hippocrates
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.
History
The Hippocrates Project began In 1987 in an unused
microbiology
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laboratory
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by six
medical student
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s (Alan Simon, M.D.; Howard M. Karpoff, MD and others) and one member of the faculty, Martin Nachbar, MD (1937-2015). It was one of the early adopters of the use of computers and multimedia in education. Courseware was created, such as a computerized atlas of Histology in
HyperCard
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and a multidimensional Neuroanatomy Atlas using
SuperCard
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. Software expanded to include other courseware, digitized video, and 3-d simulations of surgery, such as Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. The Hippocrates Project also created early versions of the electronic medical record. As of 1997, the Hippocrates Project is officially an Educational Computing Division (ECD).
[Division of Educational Informatics]
Accomplishments
Hippocrates has produced over 100 "medical education modules", most of which are used in NYU curricula as exercises or as educational resources. These "modules" may be "expository presentations, laboratory simulations, self-assessment and testing programs, three-dimensional anatomic reconstructions, animations, virtual reality environments, case studies, and databases".
The Hippocrates Project also provides
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services, hosts websites, grades examinations by computer and automates course surveys.
References
External links
Home page
New York University
1987 establishments in New York City
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