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.noE-learning
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..
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