Remote teaching in ultrasound in obstetrics and gynecology using NIT

Amaç

The Tunisian society of Obstetrics and Gynecology joined the French National Diploma of US in obs & gyne to allow 100 obstetricians to benefit from 100 hours of theoretical teaching from 50 teachers while the original course was organized in Poissy France.

1. Real time using a satellite technology encoded at 300 Kbds and lend by the CNES (France) fed via IP and transmitting to Tunis.

2. Video-recordings of the lectures and power point presentations sent to Tunis one week in advance and shown in Tunis with visio-conferencing with a group of French specialist at the end of each session.

 

 

1. Real time teaching was indeed the preferred mode of teaching. However both costs of transmission and constraints on both sides were heavy.

The most logical approach, accounting for these results seems to be a rich-media presentation with targeted visio conferencing at the end of each important session.