TELE-EDUCATION RESULTS OF TELESSAÚDERS/UFRGS

Introduction: Since its inception in late 2007, the TelessaúdeRS/UFRGS – a research project of the Graduate Program in Epidemiology of University Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil – mainly focused its activities in teleconsultation for professionals in Primary Health Care (PHC) on SUS, where, until the end of 2009, it only performed training. In 2010, the project began developing activities in distance learning, offering web lectures, a course on Mental Health and courses developed in partnership with the Center for Toxicological Information of Rio Grande do Sul (CIT/RS). In August 2014, a team dedicated to developing Tele-education activities on TelessaúdeRS was created in order to increase and organize its offerings. This study aims to present the results obtained from these tele-education activities. Method: It is a quantitative survey, obtained through the records, held in an Excel spreadsheet, of each tele-education activity performed by the project. The survey was carried out between January 2010 and December 2015. Results and Conclusions: For the whole period, the project has provided 184 web lectures, watched synchronously by 8,000 people; 65 editions of 15 courses, reaching more than 3,300 students in total; over 650 posts on Formative Second Opinion published in the Virtual Health Library (BVS); over 220 videos posted on a YouTube channel and an average satisfaction of 97%. The results of this survey showed an increase in tele-education activities conducted by TelessaúdeRS/UFRGS, which provided continuous education through distance learning that is updated and based on the best evidence, being well-received by the public.