Prof Portal Africa = Innovation and Collaboration

Abstract

In 2014 a collaboration was formed between Noordhoff Health, the market leader in health e-learning in The Netherlands, Professional Emergency Care, a company specialising in emergency care training and consulting, and Cape-Orange Intercultural Connections. This collaboration became the basis for a new entity called Prof Portal Africa. Our vision was to establish a Health Learning Network in South Africa using the technology developed by Noordhoff Health, and to populate it with learning opportunities that had been identified as learning gaps in the healthcare institutions and faculties by their own education management and clinical skills facilitators in South Africa. This would allow guided learning to take place at the learners’ own pace and in their own time at the same time keeping nurses in their primary role of patient care.