The Dubai Health Authority (DHA), represented by Rashid Electronic Medical Library, has launched a first of its kind service in the Arab and Middle East, the online learning and care in the workplace.
The Director of the Medical Education and Research Department at the Authority, Dr. Wadia Sharif, stressed the importance of the service, which is based on the practice of evidence and evidence, and enables users of the library to question, research and documentation, then the application, evaluation and completion of the learning cycle.
She added that the service is free of charge and is currently available to the medical, nursing and medical staff in the Authority and will soon be circulated to workers in the sector from inside and outside the country.
She explained that the service aims to reward doctors hours of continuing medical education for using sources based on evidence, which is provided by the electronic medical library, in the process of self-learning, anytime, from anywhere.
She explained that the library provides an opportunity for doctors and health care workers in general, to reach 18 million 670 thousand 516 articles, 16 thousand 277 medical journals, 220 thousand and 761 books, and more than six million pictures and videos.
Nada Hamdan Al Shamsi, Senior Administrative Officer at Rashid Medical Library, said that the process of benefiting and participating in the workplace learning and care service is to ask a clinical question related to patients or clinical practice, and then to search for evidence-based sources available on the Medical Library website. To answer the question, the results obtained during the search are kept.
She noted the importance of the researcher learning how to apply the results to patient care or clinical practice, and to determine whether research has led to a change in efficiency or performance.