Delivering Distance Training to Rural Health Care Professionals

This article reports on a project that delivers distance training to rural health care professionals. Traveling to provide training on information-seeking skills to rural health professionals is time consuming and costly. In addition to face-to-face training, the University of South Alabama Biomedic...

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Published in:Medical reference services quarterly 2005-01, Vol.24 (1), p.41-54
Main Authors: Li, Jie, Runderson, Robert A., Burnham, Judy F., Staggs, Geneva Bush, Robertson, Justin C., Williams, Thomas L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Medical Centers - organization & administration
Alabama
Area Health Education Centers
Computer assisted instruction
Computer User Training
Databases as Topic
Distance education
Distance learning
Education
Education, Continuing - methods
Education, Distance - methods
Educational technology
Health administration
Health care
Hospital Shared Services
Hospitals, Rural - organization & administration
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
information technology
information-seeking skills training
Libraries, Medical - organization & administration
Medical libraries
Medicine
Multimedia
Organizational Case Studies
Rural areas
SAMNet project
Software
South Alabama University
Students
Teaching
University libraries
USA
World Wide Web
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Summary:This article reports on a project that delivers distance training to rural health care professionals. Traveling to provide training on information-seeking skills to rural health professionals is time consuming and costly. In addition to face-to-face training, the University of South Alabama Biomedical Library's SAMNet project seeks to deliver multimedia training to rural health care professionals. The project uses information technology to package training courses combining PowerPoint slides and video instructions. This article describes the rationale, training module design and development, and the information technology and software used in the project. Multimedia packaged distance training courses provide a practical alternative to on-site training for rural health care professionals. It enables librarians to provide training without traveling long distance, thus saving time and money. Additionally, rural health care professionals may access the modules at a time convenient to them and proceed at a pace suitable to their learning style.
ISSN:0276-3869
1540-9597
DOI:10.1300/J115v24n01_04