title: Transforming continuing education materials for on-line learning.
abstract: Internet-based learning is a growing trend in continuing education for health professionals. We have developed an on-line version of four workshops for practising physicians, tracing a patient's course from the initial diagnosis of dementia to end-of-life care. We have also developed an on-line dementia toolkit that could evolve with changing knowledge. The toolkit consisted of reference material collected from a variety of sources and vetted by our team of experts to address the common complaint that the sources of on-line reference materials are often unauthenticated. The Geriatric Forum provides an array of resources for health professionals.
authors.affiliation: Regional Geriatric Program of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada. david.ryan@swchsc.on.ca
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ryan
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Waterston
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002170:Canada; D003704:Dementia / Q000517:prevention & control*; D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D005853:Geriatrics / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D019212:Multimedia