ArticleJournal of general internal medicine2013
Continuing distance education: a capacity-building tool for the de-isolation of care professionals and researchers.
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- Pooled it
- Policy analysis and expert consultation on cross-border telehealth services.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- On the advantages and disadvantages of virtual continuing medical education: a scoping review.Canadian medical education journal · 2023Article
- E-Learning Performance Evaluation in Medical Education-A Bibliometric and Visualization Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A scoping review of the use of e-learning and e-consultation for healthcare workers in low- and middle-income countries and their potential complementarity.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Implementation and evaluation of a Project ECHO telementoring program for the Namibian HIV workforce.Human resources for health · 2020Article
- Learning From eHealth Implementations Through "Implementomics": A Multidimensional Annotation Model Applied to eHealth Projects of the RAFT Network.Frontiers in public health · 2019Article
- The Haiti Medical Education Project: development and analysis of a competency based continuing medical education course in Haiti through distance learning.BMC medical education · 2016Article
- The influence of a telehealth project on healthcare professional recruitment and retention in remote areas in Mali: A longitudinal study.SAGE open medicine · 2016Article
- Clinicians' Knowledge and Perception of Telemedicine Technology.Perspectives in health information managemen · 2015Article
- E-Health, another mechanism to recruit and retain healthcare professionals in remote areas: lessons learned from EQUI-ResHuS project in Mali.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2014Article
- The RAFT Telemedicine Network: Lessons Learnt and Perspectives from a Decade of Educational and Clinical Services in Low- and Middle-Incomes Countries.Frontiers in public health · 2014Review
- Teledermatology in Low-Resource Settings: The MSF Experience with a Multilingual Tele-Expertise Platform.Frontiers in public health · 2014Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThere 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.
aimTo 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.
settingCare 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.
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