title: Using distance-based technologies for emergency medicine training and education.
abstract: Cost-effective and sustainable ways of continuing to improve emergency medical services and education worldwide must be pursued if the field is to continue to expand globally. Distance-based learning and the use of telecommunications advances present us with an ideal opportunity to improve international medical education. Such technologies can overcome the financial and logistic constraints of travel and can complement existing exchanges.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine and Ronald Reagan Institute of Emergency Medicine, George Washington University Medical Center, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 2-B, Washington, DC 20037, USA. Thailemariam@mfa.gwu.edu
authors.forename: Tenagne
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haile-Mariam
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Koffenberger
authors.forename: Harry W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: McConnell
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Widamayer
mesh_terms: D020375:Education, Distance; D018961:Educational Technology; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007391:International Cooperation; D013690:Television