Formation Médicale Continue et Réseau Santé Social

This paper is concerned by the possible use of the French Health Professional Network for Continuing Medical Education.. Based on our experience of development of a Virtual Medical University on the web server of the Medical School of the University of Rennes (www.med.univ-rennes1.fr) we plan to extend it to Continuing Medical Education. Most of the concepts can be used and the tools developed previously for the medical students and already available at our Medical School and University Hospital can be applied. We also plan to use problem based learning as it is now used in our Medical school for the Medical student before going to their residency or intership training. In the context of the French medical reform where Continuing Medical Education will be required for all private practitioners such training can be proposed to the physicians who are connected to the Intranet health network. The same model and system structure can be applied for any specialized field of clinical medicine including general practice and will be made available on the French Health Network .