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Health Sciences Online:

democratizing health science knowledge Erica Frank, MD, MPH Founder and Executive Director, Health Sciences Online Professor and Canada Research Chair UBC – School of Population and Public Health. Health Sciences Online:. The problem we’re fixing.

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Health Sciences Online:

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  1. democratizing health science knowledge Erica Frank, MD, MPH Founder and Executive Director, Health Sciences Online Professor and Canada Research Chair UBC – School of Population and Public Health Health Sciences Online:

  2. The problem we’re fixing • In 2006 WHO identified a need for 4.3 million more trained health workers globally • It is clear this will require greater use of training innovation, especially through information and communication technologies

  3. HSO.info What is www.HSO.info ? • Health Sciences Online is the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge. • Search any health sciences topic from over 50,000 courses, references, guidelines, and other learning resources – in medicine (basic and clinical sciences), public health, pharmacy, dentistry, nursing, and other health sciences disciplines. • Materials are selected from accredited educational sources including universities, governments, and professional societies, by knowledgeable staff at HSO. • Resources can be searched and retrieved in 52 languages.

  4. HSO Home Page

  5. Diabetes

  6. 52 Languages Available Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Belarussian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Tr) Chinese (Si) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Latvian • Lithuanian • Macedonian • Malay • Maltese • Norwegian • Persian • Polish • Portuguese • Romanian • Estonian • Filipino • Finnish • French • Galician • German • Greek • Hebrew • Hindi • Hungarian • Icelandic • Indonesian • Irish • Russian • Serbian • Slovak • Slovenian • Spanish • Swahili • Swedish • Thai • Turkish • Ukrainian • Vietnamese • Welsh • Yiddish

  7. Diabetes Search in French

  8. Diabetes Search in Chinese

  9. Diabetes Search in Japanese

  10. HSO’S VISION – Phase I A world where health professionals in training and practice access comprehensive, easily-found, high quality, free, current courses, references, and other learning resources to improve health.

  11. Founding Collaborators and Funders American College of Preventive Medicine Annenberg Physician Training Program Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NATO – Science for Peace University of British Columbia World Bank World Health Organization World Medical Association

  12. “Health Sciences Online is a visionary undertaking.” – Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH, Former Director, U.S. CDC “HSO.info will help globally democratize health science knowledge.” -Carmen Carpio, Knowledge Mgmt Officer, World Bank "HSO is an incredible resource for health professionals all over the world. Open access to health information should literally save millions of lives and lead to important new discoveries.” -Anne Margulies, former Executive Director, Open Course Ware, MIT “HSO is expected to make a considerable contribution to the advancement of e-learning worldwide.” -WHO, Building Foundations for E-Health, 2006 “The internet at its finest… a bonanza… a boon… an incredibly worthwhile enterprise… a model of what Health 2.0 and Science 2.0 can be… one of the most altruistic and honorable health service resources on the planet.” -Online reviews, 2009

  13. HSO’S VISION – Phase II A world where health professionals in training and practice continue to have free access to www.HSO.info -- a comprehensive, easily-found, high quality, free, current website, with courses, references, and other learning resources to improve health AND A world where anyone can become and remain a well-trained health professional in any discipline where they are qualified – to answer WHO’s expressed needs.

  14. A community-based model for a more knowledgeable/plentiful health workforce We propose using community-based education to enormously and rapidly expand the number of well-trained health workers, combining the best aspects of a 19th century apprenticeship with the 21st century’s most powerful, high quality, and efficient educational tools.

  15. Populating from HSO

  16. Populating from HSO

  17. Examples of Educational Initiatives

  18. Erica Frank, MD, MPHerica.frank@ubc.ca Professor and Canada Research Chair, University of British Columbia School of Population and Public Health and Department of Family Practice Founder and Executive Director, Health Sciences Online Founder and Principal Investigator, Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient Immediate Past President, Physicians for Social Responsibility

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