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Restructuring rural continuing medical education through videoconferencing.
Full Abstract
We piloted a videoconferencing continuing medical education programme for rural physicians in Alberta and compared its feasibility, acceptability and cost implications with currently existing telephone conferencing and regional conference programmes. Videoconferencing clearly had advantages over telephone conferencing but was not as well appreciated by consumers as the existing regional conference programme. Nonetheless, the videoconferencing programme, although somewhat more costly than telephone conferencing, was associated with considerable cost-savings compared with the regional conference programme. On balance, we concluded that further development of the videoconferencing programme is warranted and we will slowly replace existing telephone conferencing programmes. However, there remains a need for the current regional conference programme.
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Author information
Author/s: Davis, Paul (P); McCracken, Peter (P);
Affiliation: Division of Continuing Medical Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. paul.davis@ualberta.ca
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article
Journal: Journal of telemedicine and telecare (J Telemed Telecare), published in England. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-; vol 8 Suppl 2 (issue ) : pp 108-9
Dates: Created 2002/09/09; Completed 2002/12/10; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12217160, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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