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    http://www.ocwconsortium.org/ . (Accessed 9/15/2013). A large collection of public health lecture slides are also available at http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/ (Accessed 9/15/2013).

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    http://secondlife.com/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.clinispace.com/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    https://www.mededportal.org/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.amia.org/education/10x10-courses (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://healthit.hhs.gov/portal/server.pt/community/healthit_hhs_gov__workforce_development_program/3659 (Accessed 1/8/2013)

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    http://emedicine.medscape.com/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.uptodate.com/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.ovid.com/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.infobuttons.org/ (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.imsglobal.org/background.html (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.adlnet.gov/overview (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    http://www.ieeeltsc.org:8080/Plone (Accessed 9/15/2013)

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    taste.merlot.org (Accessed 9/15/13)

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    http://www.adlnet.gov (Accessed 1/8/2013)

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    http://www.medbiq.org/about_us/mission/index.html (Accessed 1/8/2013)

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Dev, P., Schleyer, T.K.L. (2014). Computers in Health Care Education. In: Shortliffe, E., Cimino, J. (eds) Biomedical Informatics. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4474-8_23

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