Summary

The developed web based interactive tools and methods are providing opportunity for self-test and decision support. Physicians have any question or would like to get more information relates to patient history, status, physical evaluation, laboratory and other data they can use case report questioners and electronically link index words they linked to the text book supporting the knowledge of the field.

Goals

The aim of PROPRACTITION is to build a co-operative medical education application, in which doctors, located in different hospitals can achieve a co-operative diagnosis on cardio-vascular diseases. The project focuses on the continuing education of Health Care Professionals using the advantages of INTERNET and WEB sites. The electronic education will help to meet new demands for qualifications and skills in connection with change in the health care system and the emergence of the Information Society. This should be achieved using the following paths:

• Helping to develop vocational qualification structures for the creators/designers of educational software;
• Identifying innovative methods for using information and communication technologies in vocational training, particularly as regards the needs of the primary health care and the acquisition of new skills;

• Spreading good practices in terms of using and disseminating evidence based medicine in primary care and cardio-vascular disease oriented educational software.

PROPRACTITION Toolkit

PROPRACTITION develops a toolkit to display technical specifications of clinical solutions in an accessible way using browsers to present case reports and linked text book, which are familiar to the everyday experience of primary care practitioners. The Toolkit included a 'quick route questionnaire' to demonstrate the capability of the system and to provide an appropriate graphical user interface to enable the system to be used easily, for both input and inquire activity, by non-IT literate physicians.

Conclusion

General Practitioners (GP) were involved to foster the development of methods of self-training and of open-distance learning and training. During the project partners implemented information and communication technologies (WEB and Internet) in order to assist the process of giving access to lifelong learning for primary care physicians.