CCTOS: Education Issues

• Issues:
  • Helping a few individual patients is of course an urgent need, but the main challenge of emerging countries is to provide sustainability.
• Approaches:
  • Beginners need above all to learn how to manage medical information.  This is why the above method of explicit recording of "Observations-Problems-Activities" is particularly recommended for beginners. It is also very useful in a multidisciplinary environment.
    
  • Access to textbooks of theoretical knowledge must be available, however it is not enough because the lecture of textbooks is arduous.
  • Education is to learn how to solve problems.  As far as possible a transparency of the decision steps is very important.  Semantic schemas will be probably more easy to understand than long explanations in text.
    
  • Scenario of "Contextual training":
    • Ask local staff to record what they have observed,
    • Ask them to document their current understanding of the patient problems,
    • On their request provide a second opinion:
      • If in agreement, a motivating acknowledgement for the local staff.
      • If suggestions to proceed in a different way, a factor of training, when providing some background information related to the current Health Issues.   Maybe just one page of explantions.  Next time a similar situation will arise, the local staff is expected to know better how to proceed.
  • User guide of the system itself:
    • Also by means of contextual explanations, when clicking on help buttons included in most pages.  The user guides may depend on the user preferences in function of the level of training.