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Sustainable Knowledge & Skills Transfer

Evidence-based medicine is contingent upon effective transfer of knowledge and skills to improve practice & health outcomes.
Issuing and disseminating toolkits, guidelines and best practices is ineffective because they are often not implemented or followed-up.
The conceptions of knowledge and skills as situated, tacit, and practice-based also indicate one-off injections are no longer valid in the new net-world of learning stored in connected networks
Learning is now understood as actionable & applied knowledge, that is situated in rich learning ecologies, collaborative, contingent, apprenticed, reflective, socially constructed through dialogue for problem-solving in context.
How can one-off conferences & workshops sustain the transfer of learning to improve practice without overcoming the constraints of time & distance?

	Old Continuing Medical Education	New Continuing Professional Development Education (CPDE)
Setting	Hospital/University	At Practice & at a distance
Framework	Diplomas	E-Portfolios
Delivery	Lectures	Discussion, case-studies, problem-based learning. IT, blended learning
Strengths	Wise man on stage	Relevance to practice, facilitator
Availability	One-off, random, not customised	Internet, journals, flexible, personalised
Pedagogy	Didactic expert	Constructivist, social & informal

How?

Paying attention to issues of pedagogical design
Framing education around policy priorities, essential questions where research & capacity gap exists, strategic goals and objectives related to on-going and summative assessment of members learning
Using e-learning to sustain transfer of Knowledge & Skills to improve performance across distance
Leverage health conference workshops programme to scale

To build professionals’ capacity for CPDE
To enrich health professionals culture as a global learning community
To improve professional engagement through continuous learning communities beyond workshops
To optimize knowledge & skills transfer
To integrate ICT strategically into education programmes & conferences

Web-based distance & flexible learning means we can reach more members to further continue education beyond one-off conference workshops
E-learning, m-learning, e-health, m-health offer opportunities to reach hard-to-reach professionals who find it difficult to attend workshops or conferences
Health professionals digital literacy needs & skills building are a priority in 21st century
Some have begun to move in this direction – e-mentoring, online communities, Resource Library

Deepen members’ engagement in developing their own learning solutions through participatory collaboration framework
Deliver strategic plan goals
Harness technology & new media intelligently by building e-learning competence among membership
Innovate to take AIDS Conferences to the 21st century
Build partnerships with top-notch academic partners
Play a leadership role in health professional education compared to our competitors
Improve organization educational effectiveness for sustainable impact on members practice
Higher return from investment in education than one-off workshops
Deepen staff & stakeholders ownership of organizational strategy
Align & cohere conference & ‘non-conference’ parts of organization