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Peer reviewedWood, Joan B.; Parham, Iris A. – Educational Gerontology, 1996
From 1985-1992 the Virginia Geriatric Education Center broadcast via satellite 22 videoconferences involving over 22,000 health professionals in the United States, Canada, and Bermuda. The program required substantial marketing to attract sufficiently large audiences to be cost effective, was labor intensive, and necessitated technical expertise.…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Distance Education, Faculty Development, Geriatrics
Download full textParham, Iris A.; Wood, Joan – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 1985
This document includes a successful model for implementing educational teleconferencing, the Geriatric Live Interactive Teleconferencing program at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). As a vehicle for continuing professional education, teleconferencing can transmit the latest information to large numbers of health professionals in a variety of…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Graduate Medical Education, Higher Education, Models
