mCME Delivering continuing medical education to community health workers using cell phones

mCME 使用手机向社区卫生工作者提供继续医学教育

• 批准号: 9117774
• 负责人: Christopher J GILL
• 金额: $ 6.29万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-11 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9117774
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Community health workers (CHWs) provide essential basic medical care to hundreds of millions of people across the globe. CHWs offer a myriad of services including community sanitation, breast feeding counseling, family planning, management of febrile children, and malaria control and prevention, to name but a few. In fact, CHWs are often the only source of primary health care available to some of the most disadvantaged populations in the world. However, to be effective, CHWs must be trained - and retrained - at regular intervals, and the costs for such trainings can be substantial. In the US, clinicians are required to stay current and maintain their competence through continuing medical education (CME). Increasingly, CME activities are delivered via internet-based, self-teaching modules. A typical example would be a set of topical readings followed by multiple-choice questions, with the answers, and CME credit, provided to the user upon satisfactory completion of the module. This content is typically delivered over the Internet. However, there is no intrinsi reason why this approach could not be adapted so that CME activities are delivered using standard cell phones via SMS text messaging. This would significantly expand professional training opportunities to a far greater range of CHWs than possible through computer/tablet/smart phone platforms, and would be particularly valuable in poorer countries with limited training budgets. In the mCME project, we propose to test the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of a mobile phone-based CME delivery strategy among Vietnamese community-based physician assistants (CBPAs), a cadre of CHW mandated to provide primary health care to rural and disadvantaged populations. We hypothesize that providing CME activities over a mobile platform will significantly improve their professional knowledge, and may also improve their job satisfaction and self- efficacy.

描述（由申请人提供）：社区卫生工作者 (CHW) 为全球数亿人提供必要的基本医疗服务。社区卫生工作者提供多种服务，包括社区卫生、母乳喂养咨询、计划生育、发热儿童管理以及疟疾控制和预防等。事实上，社区卫生工作者往往是世界上一些最弱势群体可以获得初级卫生保健的唯一来源。然而，为了发挥作用，社区卫生工作者必须定期接受培训和再培训，而此类培训的成本可能会很高。在美国，临床医生需要通过继续医学教育 (CME) 来跟上潮流并保持其能力。 CME 活动越来越多地通过基于互联网的自学模块进行。一个典型的例子是一组主题阅读材料，然后是多项选择题，以及答案和 CME 学分，在圆满完成模块后向用户提供。该内容通常通过互联网传送。然而，没有任何内在原因不能调整这种方法，以便使用标准手机通过 SMS 文本消息传送 CME 活动。与通过计算机/平板电脑/智能手机平台相比，这将显着扩大更多社区卫生工作者的专业培训机会，并且对于培训预算有限的较贫穷国家尤其有价值。在 mCME 项目中，我们建议在越南社区医师助理 (CBPA) 中测试基于手机的 CME 交付策略的有效性和成本效益，CBPA 是 CHW 的骨干人员，负责向农村和弱势群体提供初级卫生保健。我们假设通过移动平台提供 CME 活动将显着提高他们的专业知识，还可能提高他们的工作满意度和自我效能。

项目成果

Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of mCME Version 2.0: An SMS-Based Continuing Medical Education Program for HIV Clinicians in Vietnam.

• DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-22-00008
• 发表时间: 2022-08-30
• 期刊: Global health, science and practice
• 作者: Sabin LL;Mesic A;Le BN;Halim N;Cao CTH;Bonawitz R;Nguyen HV;Larson A;Nguyen TTT;Le AN;Gill CJ
• 通讯作者: Gill CJ

Motivating HIV Providers in Vietnam to Learn: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of a Mobile Health Continuing Medical Education Intervention.

激励越南艾滋病毒提供者学习：移动医疗继续医学教育干预措施的混合方法分析。

• DOI: 10.2196/12058
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: JMIR medical education
• 影响因子: 3.6
• 作者: LarsonWilliams,Anna;Hawkins,Andrew;Sabin,Lora;Halim,Nafisa;LeNgoc,Bao;Nguyen,VietHa;Nguyen,Tam;Bonawitz,Rachael;Gill,Christopher
• 通讯作者: Gill,Christopher

Benefits and Limitations of Text Messages to Stimulate Higher Learning Among Community Providers: Participants' Views of an mHealth Intervention to Support Continuing Medical Education in Vietnam.

短信刺激社区提供者高等教育的好处和局限性：参与者对支持越南继续医学教育的移动医疗干预措施的看法。

• DOI: 10.9745/ghsp-d-16-00348
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Global health, science and practice
• 作者: Sabin,LoraL;LarsonWilliams,Anna;Le,BaoNgoc;Herman,AugustaR;VietNguyen,Ha;Albanese,RebeccaR;Xiong,Wenjun;Shobiye,HezekiahOa;Halim,Nafisa;Tran,LienThiNgoc;McNabb,Marion;Hoang,Hai;Falconer,Ariel;Nguyen,TamThiThanh;Gill,
• 通讯作者: Gill,

Implementing the mobile continuing medical education (mCME) project in Vietnam: making it work and sharing lessons learned.

在越南实施移动继续医学教育 (mCME) 项目：使其发挥作用并分享经验教训。

• DOI: 10.21037/mhealth.2019.02.01
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: mHealth
• 作者: Bonawitz,Rachael;Bird,Liat;Le,NgocBao;Nguyen,VietHa;Halim,Nafisa;Williams,AnnaLarson;Sabin,Lora;Gill,ChristopherJ
• 通讯作者: Gill,ChristopherJ