China to Extend CME to 5.5 Million Medical ProfessionalsChina will extend long-distance continued medical education (CME) to its 5.5 million medical professionals, to help physicians and doctors improve their professional competence, announced an official from the Ministry of Health (MOH) Wednesday, December 13.The Beijing Worthope Sathen Network Technology Co. Ltd. has invested and set up the Satellite Tele-Health Education Network under the direction of the MOH. The MOH official said that the network, through satellite communication, multimedia, and computer networks, aims to become a long-distance medical education network covering the whole country. The network will provide CME, post-graduation medical education, physician training, and education of rural doctors to the 5.5 million medical professionals around China. Medical professionals, especially those in rural and remote areas, will get knowledge and technology that is suitable for them and not limited by time and place. The MOH will establish over 20,000 training stations around the country by 2005, for the purpose of CME. Professor Li Zhu from the CME committee of the MOH said that MOH will complete construction of the exemplified network by the end of this year, and extend the network to ten provinces and municipalities by 2001, and complete the network in 2005. |
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