Digital Empowerment: TheRole of ICT in Iranian Medical Education
Medical workers have an important and ongoing duty to keep up with medical breakthroughs. This makes doctors teachers for the rest of their lives. Continuing Medical Education (CME), which is the same in Iran as it is in the US, is the link between basic study and the practising doctor who needs to earn credits for licensure and board certification. Online CME classes are now possible thanks to improvements in multimedia technology and the Internet. This makes it easier and faster for doctors to get CME points. People have said that the first generation of online courses didn't have enough interaction, but new developments in multimedia technologies and broadband connections offer a new way to learn online where people from far away can talk to each other using voice or video channels. Also, future generations of online CME may include virtual reality courses that will help doctors learn and practise how to do procedures and gain knowledge. Continued use of advanced technologies and development of new material will likely add new aspects to traditional learning, and online CME courses may become a major way for doctors to learn.
Since the time of Sir William Osier, it has been known that a career in medicine means learning for the rest of your life. This is a philosophy that shows how committed a doctor is to patient care in a world where new research is always making clinical practise standards better. Continuing Medical Education (CME) is the official way that improvements in basic medical study are shared with practising doctors in the United States. New technologies have made important changes to CME course formats that have made them easier to access and less expensive. This will be the case for a long time to come because new technologies offer to give computer-based learning courses more depth.
The idea of continuing medical education (CME) has become a part of the way health care is given in the United States. Over the past 60 years, more and more American Medical Boards and societies have made CME credit standards for participation. The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education was founded in 1975. As of 1997, 24 of the 28 specialty boards in the United States needed doctors to get CME points in order to get certified and licenced. So, doctors in the United States must now keep getting CME points for the rest of their lives. But doctors' busy lives make it hard for them to get the needed CME credits, especially in university settings where they have to balance clinical, research, and teaching duties.
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