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- Title
Continuing distance education: a capacity-building tool for the de-isolation of care professionals and researchers.
- Authors
Bagayoko, Cheikh Oumar; Perrin, Caroline; Gagnon, Marie-Pierre; Geissbuhler, Antoine
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>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.<bold>Aim: </bold>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.<bold>Setting: </bold>Care professionals using RAFT (Telemedicine Network in French-speaking Africa) in isolated care facilities.<bold>Program Description: </bold>Within RAFT, an organizational framework and computer-based tools have been developed and evolved to provide useful, qualitative, applicable training material.<bold>Program Evaluation: </bold>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.
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2013, Vol 28, p666
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-013-2522-1