eLearning and Health Education

Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a human resource crisis in health care provision – a crisis that poses a huge challenge to the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals. At eLearning Africa, Dr Emil Jones Asamoah-Odei from the WHO Regional Office for Africa will make a case for the use of eLearning for responding to the human resource for health crisis in sub-Saharan Africa and review experiences from Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO). eLA newsletter reporter Edris Kisambira introduces the topic.
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With almost twenty years of experience in providing digital information to the healthcare community in Africa and other developing regions, AED–SATELLIFE serves as an important think tank and innovator in the fields of community building and information dissemination. The organisation, established by the cardiologist Dr. Bernard Lown, who was also a co-founder of the Nobel Prize winning IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), is a leader in large-scale implementations of mobile devices to train nurses and clinical staff. eLA Editor Nina Wittrock spoke with Andrew Sideman, Director of Development, and Pamela Scorza, Information Associate, about SATELLIFE’s current and future projects in Africa and how they are linked to eLearning.
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Fundamental to the success of what have become known as “Virtual Patients” is the narrative, says Professor David Dewhurst from the University of Edinburgh. The virtual “cases” have to be believable so that students become immersed in the virtual environment, take their assumed role seriously and understand that their decisions have consequences. At eLearning Africa 2008, Prof. Dewhurst will demonstrate how medical teachers at the University of Malawi create quality virtual patients for their students.
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Lori Waters, who gave a presentation on Seeing Science: Creating Scientific Visualisations to Increase Understanding of HIV Infection at eLearning Africa 2007, came home from the Continent short a laptop and camera, but full of something even more valuable — the ability to help. In the following piece she depicts a successful project journey in the course of her stay in Nairobi and recalls some impressions she gained at the conference.
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