Monica Parente Ramos

O papel do ensino a distância na educação médica continuada: uma análise crítica

This paper reviews findings of recent literature which have systematically evaluated outcomes of continuing medical education programs worldwide, methods for measuring especific demands in medical areas, and quality and reliability of contents related to such programs. Particular features of the Brazilian health context and internet technologies are described, as well as possible directions towards life-long medical education development in Brazil for the next few years.

How to educate health care professionals in developing countries? A Brazilian experience

E-learning is an important tool to bring health care professionals updated information, especially in a large, developing country like Brazil, where teaching resources are limited. It allows the exchange of experiences between professionals, promotes simultaneous knowledge acquisition by a large number of participants, and reaches some remote areas.

Educação médica continuada online: potencial e desafios no cenário brasileiro

With the intense production and publication of scientific information, it has become difficult for medical professionals to keep up-to-date using only the traditional resources. It is urgent to be come familiar with and participate in continuing training processes. Among other initiatives, the Brazilian Medical Association and the National Medical Board launched the National Program for Online Continuing Medical Education, seeking to disseminate the knowledge produced in large cities to profes sionals in the more remote areas of the country or those with less available time. Based on the assumption that the Knowledge Society requires initial and on-going training for professionals and citizens with a new set of skills to act efficiently and responsibly, these programs should be developed through pedagogical approaches that effectively value, beyond content delivery, a willingness to engage in research, autonomy in the search for information, collaborative spirit, and an ethical stance. To contribute to this discussion, the current article aims to resume the process of formal organization of online continuing medical education in Brazil in didactic and pedagogical terms and to analyze the perspectives of distance education programs.

Perceptions and attitudes of the professional staff concerning infection surveillance and control programs in Brazilian hospitals

BACKGROUND Several countries have conducted studies to assess the status of their infection control programs (ICP) with the objective of improving quality of infection control practices. METHODS To assess the perceptions and attitudes of the health care workers (HCW) concerning ICP in Brazilian hospitals, we conducted a cross-sectional survey using a self-administered online questionnaire during a Web-based course (WBC) on infection control (IC) and antimicrobial resistance (AR). RESULTS Of 6256 Brazilian HCW registered for the WBC, 1998 were members of infection control committees (ICC) and answered the survey. Eight hundred six (40.4%) respondents said that an ICP was established for more than 10 years in their institutions. Most professionals reported that their hospitals perform microbiologic surveillance targeted at epidemiologically important multidrug-resistant organisms, but the majority underestimated the prevalence of AR. CONCLUSION Our survey highlights important information about the perceptions and attitudes of ICC members that may be used to tailor key interventions for implementing effective ICP. It suggests, additionally, that, to achieve countrywide standardized IC mechanisms in a developing country, authorities should consider the social, cultural, and economical disparities between regions and identify specific regional needs to make available the resources required to minimize such disparities.

Study of Teacher Practices in Health Sciences in Brazil

Abstract This study involved fourteen semistructured interviews with teaching staff at a Brazilian university. These interviews were aimed at unveiling possible transformations caused by distance education in classroom teaching and in medical assistance practices. The discourses collected were analyzed using qualitative methods and divided into groups with convergent meanings, resulting in the following units: Infrastructure, Personal Use of Information Technology Resources, Impressions of Distance Education, Intensity of Dedication, Interactivity, Benefits of Distance Education, Teaching Practices, and Changes in Assistance. Results suggest that virtual teaching has resulted in positive changes in the professor–student relationship that allow improvements in interactivity and the creation of different expectations from those observed in classroom practice. There was a significant appropriation of the technological resources and pedagogical activities used in online courses for classroom teaching practice. Also observed was the transfer of knowledge to the personal and medical assistance spheres.

Educational program in cardiac sounds

Medical school has been through several modifications until it reached its current model. However, with its development and the introduction of new teaching techniques that aims to move students towards actual medical practice, instead of just delivering course content, some problems began to emerge. For example, in some situations, students cannot learn by a patient analysis because that could be considered an invasive process, involving high risk procedures and ethical issues. Nevertheless, the difficulties found in medical education cannot hinder the process of educating new doctors. Thus, it is necessary to use appropriate educational methods and technologies. An incipient technology is the utilization of multimedia educational programs, which integrate multimedia resources and offer the user an active participation in the learning process. An educational program, discussing the pathological and physiological aspects in cardiology, is in implementation on UNIFESPs distance education website, in which we are also going to assess the use of handheld computers, or PDAs, by health students. These devices are potentially useful in distance education and offer several benefits, being the reduced size its main feature.

Educational program on first aid

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