Electronic Medical Education: New Trend but Challenging

According to the instructions by Iranian ministry of health and medical education، Continuous medical education (CME) is essential to maintain good knowledge level among health professionals to able to provide promising health services. But in practice it encounters challenges. Soon after set up of regulations for health professionals to attend CME courses، according to large size of country، restriction of healthcare human resource in far areas and busy diary of them، non-attendance courses was defined and advertised. These courses were of two main categories: web-based training or computer based training. In current short review author have focused on what have done over electronic CME programs and various aspects is discussed. These programs were conducted with various pedagogies in different centers while no evidence was established prior to commence. In current manuscript electronic education technologies are described and usability of them including advantages and disadvantages are debated.