Diabetes among Native Americans.

The "Diabetes Among Native Americans" is a web-based learning module prepared by students and faculty at Montana State University-Bozeman's Initiative for Minority Student Development. The students spent 10 weeks working a minimum of four hours per day reviewing the literature on diabetes among Native Americans as well as reading other diabetes websites and discussing their findings as a group at least one afternoon per week. Next, students wrote the content for the website and developed the graphics. The major portion of the website was completed during the summer of 1998; however, additional editing was conducted during the Fall Semester 1998 during the students' one hour per week technical writing session. The result is an American Indian culture based learning module regarding diabetes.