Südwestdeutscher Verlag für Hochschulschriften eLearning Acceptance in Hospitals: Continuing Medical Education of Healthcare Professionals

ELearning provides healthcare professionals an interesting alternative of participating to Continuing Medical Education (CME) activities. It offers the possibility to attend courses at a distance and allows creating personal learning schedules without needing to leave the job or the family. Hospitals can choose to organize CME activities for their employees and may therefore opt to offer eLearning activities. The research studies eLearning acceptance in the CME of healthcare professionals in hospitals, it wants to compare the findings to eLearning acceptance in the corporate sector and create a guideline for continuing education managers devoted to the organization of educational activities for healthcare professionals who work in hospitals. The study leads to the creation of an eLearning Readiness Index for the Continuing Medical Education of healthcare professionals (eCMERI) with the purpose of helping CME managers to promote and organize eLearning activities, and to decrease the number of dropouts.