RCGP examines e-learning opportunities for primary care

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Article Date: 14 Mar 2005 - 11:00 PDT

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The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) will look at the future of e-Learning in primary care this week in a one-day conference in London.

Designed and developed by the RCGP, Developing the future of e-Learning in primary care: responding to the challenge is the first primary care conference on the subject. It is to be held on Tuesday 15 March. The conference will look at the rapidly developing opportunities and the advantages and disadvantages of this particular approach to learning.

An audience mainly comprising of key opinion leaders, experts, GPs and GP tutors will look at the current provision of e-Learning in primary care and how best to ensure quality assurance. The event will be chaired by RCGP chairman, Dr Mayur Lakhani, and will include presentations from Dr John Sandars, Senior Lecturer in Community Based Education, The University of Leeds and Professor Peter Orton, Professor of Medical Education, University of Bath, Dr Kieran Walsh from BMJ Learning and Dr Tim Ringrose from Doctors.net.uk.

Dr Mayur Lakhani said: "This is an exciting opportunity to drive up standards by finding innovative ways of supporting GPs in their efforts to keep up to date. A high quality learning experience with an emphasis on improved patient outcomes is what we should be striving for. I am delighted to be able to chair this first ever primary care conference in e-learning."

Developing the future of e-Learning in primary care: Responding to the challenge
Tuesday 15th March 2005
Programme

9.00 Registration and Tea/Coffee

Chair: Dr Mayur Lakhani, Chair, RCGP

9.30am
Introduction
Dr Mayur Lakhani

9.40am
What exactly is e-Learning?
Dr John Sandars, Senior Lecturer in Community Based Education, Medical Education Unit, The Medical School, The University of Leeds and Honorary Teaching Fellow, e-Learning for Health Unit, Evidence for Population Health Unit, University of Manchester
-- History and development of e-Learning
-- Diversity of e-Learning opportunities
-- Advantages and challenges of e-Learning

10.00am
The world of e-Learning in primary care: Who is using it and why?
Professor Peter Orton, Professor of Medical Education, School for Health, University of Bath
-- Who is using it?
-- A map of e-Learning providers and provision
-- What's the horizon?

10.20am What are the foundations of 'good' e-Learning?
Dr Andy Thornett, Senior Clinical Lecturer, Medical Education, University of Staffordshire
-- Adult learning theory and e-Learning
-- Technology and learning

10.40am Tea/Coffee Break
11.00am Questions and Answers: Interactive discussion
11.30am What works well - and not so well?
Dr Kieran Walsh, Editorial Registrar, BMJ Learning
-- The current evidence base for e-Learning in primary care
-- Developing an evidence base
-- Measuring effectiveness of e-Learning in primary care

11.50am The inside out view
Dr David Bossano, General Practitioner, Manchester
-- A personal experience of e-Learning in primary care
-- How good was it?
-- What were the difficulties?
-- How did the experience produce change in practice?

12.15pm
Lunch and Exhibition
1.30pm E-Learning perspectives:
1. The Accreditor, Dr Zoe Barker, Legal and Commercial Director, Doctor Online Limited
2. Controversies in e-Learning, Dr John Sandars
3. Flexible e-learning designed for Primary Care, Mr Richard Norrie, FAST healthcare Ltd
4. RCGP Learning Unit, Professor Peter Orton
5. Communities of Practice, Mr Tim Bilham, University of Bath

2.30pm
Tea/Coffee Break

The future of e-Learning:

2.50pm
The electronic portfolio
Dr Tim Ringrose, Director of Professional Relations, Doctors.net.uk Ltd

3.10pm
How this fits in with Continuing Professional Development
Dr Alex Jamieson and Dr Tony Rennison, Associate Directors, Postgraduate General Practice Education, London Deanery

3.30pm
Achieving quality in e-Learning: Setting standards and meeting them
Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Health Care, University College London

3.50pm
Panel Discussion

4.15pm
Questions and Answers

4.30pm
Close

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