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..

How can e-learning be used successfully in the fight against HIV and Aids?