Feasibility of Medical Education through Email: Darsnameh e - Learning System as a National Pattern

dc.creator	Hamed - Basir Ghafouri
dc.creator	Shahzad Saravani
dc.creator	Farhad Shokraneh
dc.date	2012-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:30:02Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:30:02Z
dc.identifier	10.5681/rdme.2012.007
dc.identifier	2322-2719
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ae58700447754047bb3094ea4c995c37
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/22228
dc.description	Introduction: while internet and web could bridge over time and place barriers of educa-tion, some websites developed educational programs in different fields. The nation-wide Darsnameh e-Learning System is one of the accepted and popular services basically for ICT education and other miscellaneous topics. Here, we try to collect the characteristics of this system to assess the feasibility of its adaptation for medical education. Methods: we considered five aspects (infrastructure, registration, content, timing, and user) and two criteria (user-friendliness and reliability) to assess the adaptation of Darsnameh model for medical education. Assessment team consisted of a software engineer, a medical librarian, and a medical education expert each of them voluntarily and optionally registered in one of the Darsnameh courses and finished it. Passing each course took 43 days on average. Three two-hour meetings were held to assess the system in group discussions. All discus-sions were recorded and their contents were analyzed to form the assessment concepts and categories. To determine adoptability of the system for medical education, scores of 0-7 was considered. Results: in Categories of infrastructure, registration, content, timing, and users were scored 6, 2, 6, 4, and 4 respectively. Also, user-friendliness and reliability criteria were scored 6 and 1. Except reliability criteria, other characteristics were consi-dered as adoptable for medical education. But reliability of the registration information, content, exam results, course certification, and affiliation of developers remained unreliable. Conclusion: implementation of e-learning for medical education through email could be considered as a new developmental approach, however because of limitations of current study, it should be evaluated for a large number of subjects such as general practitioners.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Tabriz University of Medical Sciences
dc.relation	http://journals.tbzmed.ac.ir/PDF/RDME/Manuscript/RDME-1-25.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/2322-2719
dc.source	Research and Development in Medical Education, Vol 1, Iss 1, Pp 25-30 (2012)
dc.subject	e-Learning
dc.subject	Medical Education
dc.subject	Email
dc.subject	Darsnameh e-Learning System
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Feasibility of Medical Education through Email: Darsnameh e - Learning System as a National Pattern
dc.type	article