The MedtitopEU project www.meditopeu.com has been launched with funding from the Leonardo program with the specific aim of addressing up-to-date and effective training for health care professionals.

Our goals are the identification, development, and promotion of e-learning in continuing education utilized by nurses and physicians in their maintenance of competence. In the MeditopEU project we transferred the innovation from the previous project, “Promotion of Advanced Educational Innovations for training of Paediatrics, www.peditop.com, which has been awarded with HELSINKI AWARD. Further we elaborated new Internet based video-picture-animation illustrated interactive on-line courses for life-long learning and CME for nurses and medical doctors.

E-learning is not yet fully absorbed into education and training systems. We make efforts to integrate E-learning in the vocational training system of healthcare professionals in Hungary and to prove that E-learning has real potential to promote change in education. Seven on line courses at www.meditopEU.com are already accredited in the Hungarian institutional vocational training system and we make further steps to integrate other teaching material in the continuous medical education (CME) in Hungary. The MeditopEU project provides several possibilities for e-learning for the following target groups: Nurses, Internists, Paediatricians, General practitioners, Haematologists, Immunologists, Oto-rhino-laryngologists, Medical students.

The MeditopEU project takes an effective part in introducing and improving educational technology in the educational process in the health care in collaboration of European Partnership. In the MeditopEU projects 9 partners from 5 countries participate:
Contractor: INNOVAMED Medical and Educational Development Ltd.Budapest, Hungary
Partners: Auxilium, Graz, Austria, Department of Otolaryngology, The Charles University School of Medicine in Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic, The Aragonese Association of Local Authorities, Zaragoza, Spain, IP-Logimed, Budapest, Hungary, Foundation for „Hospital Culture 2000”, Pécs, Hungary, Council of the Hungarian Paramedical Professionals, Hungary,
FOR.COM, Rome, Italy, Domegable Ltd, England, Profi-Média Kft., Baja, Hungary

The MeditopEU site contains two main parts:
On-line courses that are available for self-learning. The project presents innovation from the previous Leonardo project entitled “Promotion of Advanced Educational Innovations for Training of Paediatricians” (PEDITOP). Several teaching materials have been developed for the MeditopEU site. The portal is multilingual. Teaching materials are all available in English and Hungarian, some in German, Spanish, Italian and Czech

Virtual classroom that provides interaction between students and tutor in discussing problem based learning materials. Two video-conference systems are now integrated in the MeditopEU site. The Breeze system is provided by FOR.COM to test during the project period. The SYD system was developed for the project purposes. Both systems provide features for high quality videoconferencing. Case reports have been developed in all specialities of the project by partners according to the Leonardo contract. All case reports are available in English, Hungarian, German, Spanish, Italian and Czech.