Continuing distance education: a capacity-building tool for the de-isolation of care professionals and researchers
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Background 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.Aim 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.Setting Care 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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RAFT builds capacity among health professionals in Africa and supports their activities with different tools.
“The RAFT builds capacity among health professionals in Africa and supports their activities with different tools (7, 11).”
From The RAFT Telemedicine Network: Lessons Learnt and Perspectives from a Decade of Educational and Clinical Services in Low- and Middle-Incomes Countries (2014) · cites this paper as [11]
The RAFT network was created in Africa more than a decade ago to support health professionals working in medical deserts.
“The Réseau en Afrique Francophone pour la Télémédecine (RAFT) network (8) was created in Africa more than a decade ago to support health professionals working in “medical deserts” (9–11).”
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- Authors
- Bagayoko, C. O., Perrin, C., Gagnon, M.-P., & Geissbuhler, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Bamako (ML)
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Université Laval (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Perrin, Caroline
- ORCID
- Gagnon, Marie-Pierre
- Venue
- Journal of General Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2013-06-19
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- S3
- Pages
- 666-670
- ISSN
- 0884-8734 (ISSN-L)
- 1525-1497
- PMC
- PMC3744283
- OpenAlex
- W2030981495
- Cited by
- 27
- References
- 16
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of General Internal Medicine (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- reroDoc Digital Library (submittedVersion)
- Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Emergency Medical Services › Global Health Workforce Issues
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Innovations in Medical Education
- Keywords
- distance education, continuing medical education, capacity building, health workforce recruitment and retention, telemedicine, quality of care
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Africa, Attitude of Health Personnel, Education, Continuing, Female, Health Personnel, Humans, Job Satisfaction, Male, Middle Aged, Personnel Selection, Personnel Turnover, Research Personnel, Program Evaluation, Telemedicine, Education, Distance
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