A digital online platform for education and certification of diabetic retinopathy health care professionals in the Region of Southern Denmark

Purpose The incidence of diabetes continues to increase across the world. As the number of patients rises, so does the need for educated health care professionals. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains one of the primary complications in diabetes, and screening has proved to be a cost‐effective measure...

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Published inActa ophthalmologica (Oxford, England) Vol. 100; no. 5; pp. 589 - 595
Main Authors Andersen, Jakob Kristian Holm, Hubel, Martin Slusarczyk, Savarimuthu, Thiusius Rajeeth, Rasmussen, Malin Lundberg, Sørensen, Simon Lyck Bjært, Grauslund, Jakob
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.08.2022
Subjects
artificial intelligence
certification
Diabetes
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetic retinopathy
Health care
online education
Retinopathy
screening
Training
Denmark
screening
diabetic retinopathy
online education
artificial intelligence
certification
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Summary:Purpose The incidence of diabetes continues to increase across the world. As the number of patients rises, so does the need for educated health care professionals. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) remains one of the primary complications in diabetes, and screening has proved to be a cost‐effective measure to avoid DR‐related blindness. Denmark has an established screening programme, but no formal training of the people responsible for analysing retinal images. Methods We here present an online learning platform that offers a diabetic eye screening course for health care professionals undertaking screening responsibility in the Region of Southern Denmark. The course is divided into lectures, each focussed on identifying different levels of DR or detecting related lesions. The course is free to use on‐demand, contains instructional videos, interactive tests and exercises, and it is concluded with a certification test. The tools on the platform can in addition be used to generate data for research purposes, such as comparing users or experts in detection of lesions or annotating data for the development of machine learning models. Results More than 150 participants have so far completed the course, and the platform is being adopted for education in other regions of Denmark.
Bibliography:We greatly acknowledge the support provided by Steno Diabetes Center Odense during the development of VIOLA as well as the users who have undertaken training on the platform and provided positive and constructive feedback, which is important to us in the ongoing work of improving the platform.
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ISSN:1755-375X
1755-3768
DOI:10.1111/aos.15123