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Impact of New Information Technologies on Training and Continuing Education for Rural Health Professionals
Author(s) -
Crandall Lee A.,
Coggan Janet M.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the journal of rural health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.439
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1748-0361
pISSN - 0890-765X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-0361.1994.tb00231.x
Subject(s) - rural area , health care , continuing education , public relations , rural health , health professionals , resource (disambiguation) , medicine , medical education , nursing , business , political science , computer science , computer network , pathology , law
Recently developed and emerging information and communications technologies offer the potential to move the clinical training of physicians and other health professionals away from the resource intensive urban academic health center, with its emphasis on tertiary care, and into rural settings that may be better able to place emphasis on the production of badly needed primary care providers. These same technologies also offer myriad opportunities to enhance the continuing education of health professionals in rural settings. This article explores the effect of new technologies for rural tele‐education by briefly reviewing the effect of technology on health professionals’education, describing ongoing applications of tele‐education, and discussing the likely effect of new technological developments on the future of tele‐education. Tele‐education has tremendous potential for improving the health care of rural Americans, and policy‐makers must direct resources to its priority development in rural communities.