Internet continuing education for health care professionals: An integrative review

Although the Internet is an effective and satisfactory educational format, barriers to use of the Internet for CE still exist and additional studies are needed to measure the impact of Internet CE on practice performance, reduce barriers to on‐line CE, and identify appropriate theoretical frameworks for on-line learning.

Abstract

Although the Internet is an effective and satisfactory educational format, barriers to use of the Internet for CE still exist. Additional studies are needed to measure the impact of Internet CE on practice performance, reduce barriers to on-line CE, and identify appropriate theoretical frameworks for on-line learning.