The Hippocrates Project
Encyclopedia
The Hippocrates Project is a program of the New York University
Medical Center which works with modern technologies to "enhance the learning process". It was established in 1987, presumably named after the ancient Greek
physician
Hippocrates
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laboratory
by six medical student
s and one member of the faculty. As of 1997, the Hippocrates Project is officially an Educational Computing Division (ECD).
services, hosts websites, grades examinations by computer and automates course surveys.
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
Medical Center which works with modern technologies to "enhance the learning process". It was established in 1987, presumably named after the ancient Greek
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...
physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles , and is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine...
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History
The Hippocrates project began in 1987, In 1987, in an unused microbiologyMicrobiology
Microbiology is the study of microorganisms, which are defined as any microscopic organism that comprises either a single cell , cell clusters or no cell at all . This includes eukaryotes, such as fungi and protists, and prokaryotes...
laboratory
Laboratory
A laboratory is a facility that provides controlled conditions in which scientific research, experiments, and measurement may be performed. The title of laboratory is also used for certain other facilities where the processes or equipment used are similar to those in scientific laboratories...
by six medical student
Medical Student
Medical Student may refer to:*Someone studying at medical school*Medical Student Newspaper, a UK publication...
s and one member of the faculty. As of 1997, the Hippocrates Project is officially an Educational Computing Division (ECD).
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 emailEmail
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services, hosts websites, grades examinations by computer and automates course surveys.