E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR MEDICAL INFORMATICS TO IMPROVE VOCATIONAL AND ICT PRACTICE Erasmus Project

Project Title

E-LEARNING PLATFORM FOR MEDICAL INFORMATICS TO IMPROVE VOCATIONAL AND ICT PRACTICE

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; ICT – new technologies – digital competences

Project Summary

The healthcare industry is growing steadily and the software/devices of health informatics are an important part of everyday environment of healthcare workers. An increasing investment in the medical informatics industry to digitize health information has created a strong demand for health informatics workers. Unfortunately, the intensiveness, complexity and amount of health information have presented considerable challenges in adopting information technology to increase the efficiency and enhance the quality of medical services. Innovation of the healthcare industry is therefore highly dependent on skilled people with competencies in Health Informatics. Therefore, it is necessary to train medical staff like secretary, nurse, monitoring technician, radiologist/doctor etc. on practical healthcare IT education in addition to their vocational education.

In recent years, in our country, medical informatics-related courses are taught at some vocational schools, high schools, colleges and institutes. However, courses are usually taught on formal training and based on theory. According to various research about medical informatics in Turkey, the educations of medical informatics are extremely inadequate in our country. All these problems are originated from lack of staffs that have sufficient knowledge and competence.

In accordance with EU 2020 targets and the requirements mentioned above, E-learning platform for Medical Informatics to improve Vocational and ICT Skills (E-MEDIVIP) has been designed and implemented. The aims of this novel distance learning platform and training modules are;

• To Increase the competences of the people who were and/or are currently trained on healthcare IT at international standards,
• To ensure the effective implementation of active labor market policies in the context of Lifelong learning,
• To improve the employment capability of the labor market.
• To enhance the competencies of vocational trainers who can lead the vocational education according to the needs of this market,
• To update the syllabus of vocational training on healthcare according to the need of labor market and develop new teaching methods for it.

E-MEDIVIP has seven intellectual outputs. These are;
• The detailed need analysis report will be created according to results of questionnaires performed on healthcare worker, students,and stakeholders in Turkey, Spain, and Germany.
• Project web site and interactive e-learning platform,
• E-learning module for Introduction to Medical Informatics Education and Digital Competencies
• E-learning module for Hospital Information Management System and Service,
• E-learning module for Medical Measurement Instruments,
• E-learning module for Medical Imaging Devices,
• E-learning module for Decision Support Systems.

E-MEDIVIP has been oriented to improve the competences on healthcare IT of the students that are trained at health vocational schools, colleges, biomedical engineering and medicine fields at the universities, and of the employees that are still working at health institutions such as doctors, nurses, pharmacologists, managers, IT professionals and engineers, by the help of e-learning modules for different education levels. Because of being open-source, using interactive distance education methodology and containing pilot applications, it has contributed to raise the competences in terms of either theoretical or practical. Moreover, despite being abroad (Germany, Spain), there isn’t any qualification in Medical Informatics in Turkey. Therefore, E-MEDIVIP will guide the creation of national qualifications in the medical informatics by means of international collaborations.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 203867,06 Eur

Project Coordinator

BILECIK UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• SAKARYA UNIVERSITESI
• INFO PROJE YAZILIM VE YÖNETIM
• ARDA Beratung & Bildung GmbH
• Turkish Medical Informatics Association
• BANDIRMA AKSEMSETTIN MESLEKI VE TEKNIK ANADOLU LISESI MUDURLUGU
• CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION BIOMEDICA EN RED