E-learning for medical imaging specialists: introducing blended learning in a nuclear medicine specialist course.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While e-learning has become an important tool in teaching medical students, the training of specialists in medical imaging is still dominated by lecture-based courses.

Purpose

To assess the potential of e-learning in specialist education in medical imaging.

Material and methods

An existing lecture-based five-day course in Clinical Nuclear Medicine (NM) was enhanced by e-learning resources and activities, including practical exercises. An anonymized survey was conducted after participants had completed and passed the multiple choice electronic course examination.

Results

Twelve out of 15 course participants (80%) responded. Overall satisfaction with the new course format was high, but 25% of the respondents wanted more interactive elements such as dis

SUBMITTER: Haslerud T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5533268 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature