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Distance training. Patient education and human recourses. Vibeke Flytkjær and Vegard Johansen. Netbased education Since 1994: Building up networks Developing models for education Organizing e-learning Catalogue for netbased education. Helsekompetanse.no E-learning.
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Distance training. Patient education and human recourses Vibeke Flytkjær and Vegard Johansen
Netbased education Since 1994: • Building up networks • Developing models for education • Organizing e-learning • Catalogue for netbased education
Educating norwegian medical students abroad • 60 medical students in: UK, Ireland, Germany, Malta, Polen, Australia • Independent of time and place • Working together on the Internet • Different time zones
Background • Access to prosthetists is low • Most 3rd world countries are not able to educate their own prosthetists • To reach the highest level of education as a prosthetist, students have to travel to Europe or the US.
Partners • CSPO (the local school in Cambodia) • ISPO (International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics) • The Atlas Alliance (funding) • The University hospital of Oslo • The Norwegian Organization for Dysmelia • Tanzania, El Salvador, Scotland, Germany, Norway (content)
Bridge the gap • Increases access to capacity building • Strengthens schools in 3rd world • Reduces students travel abroad • Once the content is made it can be used again and again.. How can e-learning be used successfully in the fight against HIV and Aids?