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Dental Tribune United Kingdom Edition | 1/20154 UK NEWS LONDON,UK: Electronic learning could enable millions more students to train as doctors and nurses worldwide, according to the latest research. A review commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) and carried out by Imperial College London researchers concluded that e-learning is likely to be as effective as traditional meth- ods for training health professionals. These new findings support the approach to con- tinuing education Dental Tribune Interna- tional (DTI) has adopted with its free online educationplatformfordentalprofessionals. TheImperialteam,ledbyDrJosipCar,car- riedoutasystematicreviewofthescientific literature to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learningforundergraduatehealthprofes- sional education. They conducted separate analyses on online learning, which requires an Internet connection, and offline learn- ing, delivered via CD-ROMs or USB flash drives, for example. The findings, drawn from a total of 108 studies, showed that students acquire knowledge and skills through online and offline e-learning as well as or better than they do through traditional teaching. E-learning, the use of electronic media and devices in education, is already used by some universities to support traditional campus-based teaching or to enable dis- tance learning. Wider use of e-learning might help to address the need to train more health workers across the globe. Ac- cording to a recent WHO report, the world is short of 7.2 million health care profession- als, and the figure is growing. The authors suggest that combining e-learning with traditional teaching might be suitable for health care training, as prac- tical skills must also be acquired. According to Car, from the School of Pub- lic Health at Imperial, “E-learning pro- grammes could potentially help address the shortage of healthcare workers by en- abling greater access to education; espe- cially in the developing world the need for more health professionals is greatest.” Whilethestudyfocusedontheeducationof students,DTIfollowsasimilarapproachtocon- tinuing education, offering webinars via its Dental Tribune Study Club, which it launched in2009.Theplatformregularlyoffersfreeon- linecoursesandinseverallanguages.Thewide rangeoftopicsincludesgeneraldentistry,digi- tal dentistry, practice management, as well as specialties, such as implantology and en- dodontology. The webinars are presented by experienced speakers and participants are awardedcontinuingeducationcredits. Study finds e-learning as good as tradi- tional training for health professionals By DentalTribune AD (Photo Odua Images) DTUK0115_04_UKNews 09.04.15 15:18 Seite 4 DTUK0115_04_UKNews 09.04.1515:18 Seite 4

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