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- Title
Continuing Distance Education: A Capacity-Building Tool for the De-isolation of Care Professionals and Researchers.
- Authors
Bagayoko, Cheikh; Perrin, Caroline; Gagnon, Marie-Pierre; Geissbuhler, Antoine
- Abstract
Background: There are large disparities in access to health-care professionals (HCP) in low-income African countries, leading to imbalanced and suboptimal health delivery. Part of the difficulty is recruiting and retaining care professionals to work in isolated settings. Aim: To evaluate the impact of distance continuing education as a way to build capacity, increase satisfaction and enhance the performance of care professionals in these isolated health-care facilities. Setting: Care professionals using RAFT (Telemedicine Network in French-speaking Africa) in isolated care facilities. Program Description: Within RAFT, an organizational framework and computer-based tools have been developed and evolved to provide useful, qualitative, applicable training material. Program Evaluation: The activity, satisfaction, perceptions and impact of RAFT on remote health-care workers are being monitored. RAFT's potential to improve the recruitment, satisfaction and retention of care professionals in remote settings is widely recognized; however, the actual impact on the performance and quality of care remains to be demonstrated.
- Subjects
CONTINUING education; DISTANCE education; MEDICAL personnel; TELEMEDICINE; MEDICAL quality control; SATISFACTION
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2013, Vol 28, p666
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-013-2522-1