Postgraduate medical education in paediatric surgery: videoconferencing - a possible solution for Africa?
Postgraduate medical education in paediatric surgery: videoconferencing - a possible solution for Africa?
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10.1007/s00383-007-2085-5
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发表时间：
2008-02-01
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1.8
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Mars, M.
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Hadley, Grenville Peter;Mars, M.
非洲面临着三重疾病负担；艾滋病、肺结核和疟疾。尽管如此，其人口预计将在未来45年内翻一番。医学专家严重短缺，许多国家缺乏适当合格的医生来培训医学专家。视频会议提供了共享稀缺人力资源的机会。在南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省，只有三名儿科外科医生满足该省的临床需要，并向正在培训的普通外科医生提供儿科外科手术培训。这篇论文报告了在南非设置的18个月使用视频会议的儿科外科研究生医学教育的经验。在南非的四个地点播放了71个为期1小时的视频会议研究生教学课程。教学以讲座形式进行，之后进行讨论。在2005年，平均每次有18人参加，2006年为37人。远程教学和远程教学的参与者普遍对视频会议教学感到满意。需要将这一项目扩展到南非其他地区和非洲，那里儿科外科医生严重短缺。
Africa faces a triple burden of disease; HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Despite this, its population is expected to double over the next 45 years. There is a dire shortage of medical specialists and many countries lack suitably qualified doctors to train medical specialists. Videoconferencing offers the opportunity to share scarce human resources. In the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal there are only three paediatric surgeons who meet the clinical needs of the province and offer training in paediatric surgery to general surgeons in training. This paper reports an 18-month experience using videoconferenced postgraduate medical education in paediatric surgery in a South African setting. Seventy-one videoconference postgraduate teaching sessions of 1 h duration were broadcast to up to four sites in South Africa. Teaching sessions were in a lecture format with discussion thereafter. On average, 18 people at receive sites took part in each session in 2005 and 37 in 2006. There was universal satisfaction with videoconferenced teaching from those teaching and the participants at the distant sites. There is a demand to extend this project to other parts of South Africa and into Africa, where the shortage of paediatric surgeons is acute.