Poster
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6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
J. W. Swanson(1), D. J. Capobianco(2), D. W. Dodick(3), J. Parker(4)
(1)(2)(3)Mayo Clinic - Rochester. United States
(4)Axia Health - Calgary. Canada
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[Health Informatics] |
[Neurology] |
The exponential growth of, and access to, digital networks in health care has led to indiscriminant availability and consumption of information to the detriment of comprehensive, impartial, student-centered and timely continuing health professional education. Indeed, few medical centers have yet to assume a global leadership role in continuing medical education which exploits current Internet Protocol (IP) technology to provide individual health care professionals with inclusive learning programs that meaningfully encourage career-long learning, maintain clinical excellence and establish a global standard of clinical practice (1,2). Fewer still have demonstrated a focused information technology vision or have the capacity to allocate the extensive resources necessary to make such a vision a coherent reality (3).
In this paper, we outline our strategy of developing a globally accessible student-centric continuing medical education environment of enduring interest and value to a global community of learners in an effort to establish a community-defined and accepted standard of clinical practice. To this end, we examine current trends in global Internet usage, quality of IP-based health care information, evaluate several means of continuing health professional education and outline our IP-based learning strategies and technologies as they apply to Urology.
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