The project aims to improve the provision, monitoring and management of continuous medical education for health care workers in Kenya. The goal is to improve the quality of health care provided to the Kenyan population by having a well-trained and updated health care provider, who is
also available at his/her work station to serve the sick. The project hinges on e-learning and m-learning concepts and digitization of doctor’s management systems.
Doctors are thus able to access continuous medical education (CME) material via the internet and/or their mobile phones wherever they are. This material will be approved by the Kenya Dentist and Medical board which is the regulatory body for the doctors.
Doctors are required by law to have done a certain amount of CME for quality for renewal of practice licenses or for accreditation. Unfortunately most CME activities are done in form of conferences and meetings in the capital city Nairobi and few other towns.
Thus doctors spend a lot of time traveling and out of the hospitals in order to attend such meetings leaving patients especially in our rural areas unattended. Moreover, there is no evaluation at the conferences in terms of their impact on doctor’s knowledge and ultimately medical practice. The
project has both E-CME (internet based) and M-CME (mobile based) material for doctors who will access them reliably, conveniently and at reduced cost.
The other aspect is the digitization of doctors’ management systems. Once a doctor does an E-CME the points are awarded instantly and he or she can monitor his/her progress. Further, doctors can scan their training certificates and apply for initial registration electronically without traveling to the capital.
Once this is done they can renew their licenses online, by making payment online and having their licenses renewed. The regulatory body also has data on how many doctors are at which part of
the country at certain time and what their uptake of CME is like. This will assist in doctor redistribution to avoid the skewed doctor concentration in the cities.