Should clinical lecturers produce their own CAL material?

Clinical lecturers may embark upon the task of creating CAL material unaware of the effort required to produce the simplest of programs. This study aimed to measure the effort involved in such a task in order that those contemplating such development might make a judgement which is well informed. The study entailed a computer literate, yet non-programming clinical lecturer producing a ten-minute CAL program using three different authoring templates. A diary and time log were kept. The resulting pleces of software are discussed as well as the process by which they were created.