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According to WHO, Telehealth is defined as the use of telecommunication technologies to deliver health care outside of traditional health-care facilities. One of its applications is the use of information and technologies to provide remote support to deliver health services at distance for the purpose of diagnosis, second opinion, disease monitoring or treatment telemedicine. Another is related to distance education of healthcare professionals – teleeducation. Telehealth is expanding globally and people require, training and certification in this area. There are an increasing number of programmes including undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning courses for upgrading professional qualifications. This new field of virtual heath work requires training and improvement in multidisciplinary areas to work as a part an interdisciplinary virtual team. It requires knowledge in subjects such as bioethics, Internet ethics, telehealth legislation, electronic registration systems, innovation in computer science, privacy, data protection and cyber security, among others. In this sense, educational programmes focused on Telehealth, can contribute by providing professional refinement and knowledge enhancement. There are over 200 institutions around the world that offer eHealth continuing education and academic postgraduate education programmes, most of which are in Europe and North America. In Brazil, CAPES (Coordination of Professional Development on Higher Education) is a foundation of the Ministry of Education whose central purpose to approve, coordinate and measure the quality of masters and doctoral courses of Brazilian postgraduate programmes. Currently, CAPES supports a 6,303 postgraduate programmes, 3,398 Academic Masters, 2,202 PhDs and 703 Professional Masters. In the specific fields of Telemedicine and Telehealth, there are a few Master’s or PhD programmes in the world and in Brazil there is only one the Brazilian Postgraduate Programme on Telemedicine and Telehealth, a masters level course at distance supported Abstract Purpose: Women’s participation in Telehealth is increasing around the world and they should be prepared to work in this new job market. The aim of this study was to evaluate the profile and motivation of women enrolled in the Brazilian Postgraduate Programme on Telemedicine and Telehealth. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from May to July 2018 of all women enrolled in the postgraduate programme using an anonymous online Google form. It consisted of a multiple choice form regarding: age, number of children, profession, date of graduation, current occupation, current number of jobs, workload, postgraduate programmes completed, duration of Telehealth experience and motivation to enrol on the Programme. Data collected were exported to an Excel® sheet, summarised and analysed. Results: Of 44 women, 36 completed the survey. Mean age and time passed since graduation were respectively 43.5±13.5 years and 18±17 years for student and 53±13.5 years and 31.5±8.5 for professors; 25 women have at least one child, work more than 30 hours weekly and 10 of them work in two jobs. Health professionals and health occupations were predominant in both groups. Most students had little or no experience in Telehealth. The decreasing order of frequency motivation was professional refinement (63.8%), job opportunity (55.5%), financial gain (52.7%) and innovation (38.8%). Conclusion: Regardless of age, children, workload and professional qualification, the major women's motivation for enrolling in the Telehealth Postgraduate Programme is to professional refinement in this field.

Profile and Motivation of Women Enrolled in the Brazilian Telemedicine and Telehealth Postgraduation Distance Education Programme