| a university extension course in leprosy: telemedicine in the amazon for primary healthcare. | there is a high prevalence of leprosy in the amazon region of brazil. we have developed a distance education course in leprosy for training staff of the family health teams (fhts). the course was made available through a web portal. tele-educational resources were mediated by professors and coordinators, and included the use of theoretical content available through the web, discussion lists, internet chat, activity diaries, 3-d video animations (virtual human on leprosy), classes in video stream ... | 2009 | 19246604 |