The development of MacCycle, a multimedia visual database of the
female menstrual cycle, stemmed from two related events. First, the
School of Biological and Medical Sciences at St Andrews University began
to make contingency plans to update a computer classroom which had been
used to teach physiology for about five years. Second, staff retirements
were about to change the profile of the School′s teaching coverage in
the key area of preclinical medicine. We anticipated that the
introduction of a more flexible delivery system for the histology course
might go some way to offsetting potential staff shortages.
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