“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey” Professor John Hope Franklin.

However, textbooks are changing too. Electronic editions, online extensions, PDA downloadable versions, online updates, and enhancements such as video clips have created a fusion of textbooks and the worldwide web that is changing the experience and expectations of the readership. The emerging pressures of revalidation and recertification of doctors via formal testing is also creating a …