IT EDUCTRA

• Mr. Ricardo Gaitan
  

  Fundesco
  Plaza de la Independencia, 6 E-28001 Madrid Spain	tel: 34 1 330 06 38 fax: 34 1 330 06 16 ricardo.gaitan@fundesco.es
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In this sense, IT EDUCTRA project wants to contribute to the objective settled by the Bangemann report: Major private sector health care providers linked on a European scale. First level implementation of networks in Member States linking general practitioners, specialists and hospitals at a regional and national level by end of 1995, by spreading the knowledge of IT in the HC sector.

It is a very practical project in the field of the education and training of the Healthcare (HC) professionals in Information Technologies. At the end of the first demonstration phase, this project will have produced more than 150 new training products or information packages about IT for the HC sector, some in text, some in multimedia packages, packaged in easy distribution CD ROM or accessible through Internet in an WWW node, that will be distributed for free, and will have established a mechanism to update and produce more.

At the end of the project, IT EDUCTRA will have delivered more than 10 courses, and 8 seminars, in 14 European distribution sites, with an average of 20 students or attendants, which gives a global audience of more than 5.000 HC professionals, and will have established a mechanism by which these courses can be also adopted by other institutions, multiplying the final audience in a cascade effect. In order to achieve this, this project has established from the outset a wide network of key figures and decision makers of the HC sector in most European countries, especially with those responsible for education and training. To achieve this goal, the project has established from the beginning a wide network of key figures and decision makers in the HC sector in most European countries, especially, with those responsible for the experience gained in the ERASMUS Programme(Master´s course in Medical Informatics) and also the DELTA Programme.