Poster | 6th Internet World Congress for Biomedical Sciences |
G. Reid(1), J.D. Denstedt(2), S. Das(3), R. deVere White(4), G. Brock(5), C. Evans(6), G. McLorie(7), J. Parker(8)
(1)(5)Lawson Research Institute - London. Canada
(2)University of Western Ontario - London. Canada
(3)(4)(6)University of California, Davis School of Medicine - Sacramento. United States
(7)University of Toronto - Toronto. Canada
(8)Axia Health - Calgary. Canada
[Health Informatics] |
[Urology] |
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.
[Health Informatics] |
[Urology] |