An Overview of the Curricula of Medical Documentation and Secretarial Programs Using the Distance Learning Method in Turkey

Technological innovations that enable the development of the 21st century education and training field have also affected the way individuals meet their learning needs. As the learning needs of individuals change, learning activities and learning perspectives have also changed. While information and communication technologies provide support to the traditional education system in most cases, it has also brought new learning methods to the literature. One of these new learning methods is distance education. Distance education is a modern and innovative education system that can be watched and viewed again, live, audio, video and interactive in completely digital environments through existing computer technologies and internet network, away from the time and place limits, before students and academicians come to a higher education institution. The aim of the study is to examine and discuss the courses in the medical documentation and secretarial programs that provide open and distance education in Turkey, and the place of libraries in distance education. Descriptive method used in the study document analysis and definition of learning, constructivist approaches adopted in open and distance learning in medical documentation and secretarial programs of distance education in the course of applications made by the method are discussed. As a result of the study, it has been determined that most of the courses in the curriculum of these programs have the same content, although they have different names. In addition, in the study, suggestions were made about ways to provide more efficient distance education and training services in the future in medical documentation and secretarial programs.