Medical Training and IT

Medical Training and ITMedical education and new technologies, In comes the “virtual patient” After the e-mail looks like it is coming even e-patient. Medicine is, in fact, one of the areas where they find increasing application of new technologies applied to training.

What the Italian situation? Mandatory training for nearly a million Italian operators of health, the effect of the Act of 1999 continuing medical education (CME) sponsored by the Ministry of Health, makes urgent the adoption of systems for distance learning can to overcome the traditional spatial and temporal constraints posed by the residential training.

Currently, the Ministry of Health has activated a trial period that provides for a system of accreditation of providers FAD (those responsible for quality educational event, both in scientific publishing, andragogical and technology) to replace the mode which Instead the accreditation of residential single events.

And in this context that the recent selection by the Ministry of Health of a small number of providers authorized to give credits to the medical staff that uses the mode FAD for their retraining.
We report then the project IVIMEDS (International Virtual Medical School, the international network of educational institutions in the medical field of 37 of the most important medical schools in the world ( Brown University, Thomas Hospitals Medical School, Catholic University of Sacred Heart, University of Edinburgh, University of Queensland, University of Dundee, University of Florida). This is a metacampus vituale based interchange of knowledge: through the creation of a common repository and available, participants have the opportunity to enter their own materials on the network, easily create training content, establish working groups and discussion eliminating any obstacle. Through IVIMEDS training content can be enjoyed even by means of wireless and mobile devices, cutting down any more time and space constraints.
Numerous advantages of distance learning based on new technologies: real-time exchange of knowledge and sharing of medical knowledge at global level, with consequent benefits to patients.

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