Background: Massive open online courses (MOOC) is a web-based application to transform the whole world into a school environment. In this way, the quality of education could be raised without discrimination. In 2018, 66 Family Practitioners and trainees attended the "Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety" program simultaneously. The goal was to benefit from visual and written education tools from different countries and different age groups. The aim of this study is to evaluate the benefits and/or educational needs after this MOOC. Materials and Methods: Sixty-six family medicine practitioner and trainees were the universe of the study. Due to the international participants; the survey was conducted in English online to the group. Results: Twenty-seven participants have answered the survey. Most of them were female (70.4%), young family physician (92.5%) and haven't attended to any MOOC course before (63%). The age of the participants were min:31years max:49 years. They do want to attend the upcoming MOOC courses. Only 2 of them didn't have any opinion about the contribution of the MOOC courses to primary care services. They feel that group activity is much more beneficial because they wouldn't be faster, more interested in or motivational. One of the half structured qualitative survey answers was "although I would enjoy a face to face work, this course is the opportunity to include countries that today are in crisis and it would be impossible to face the cost of education under another modality". Conclusions: Well defined and structured MOOC could be more beneficial with motivational group dynamics. This option qualifies the health and health education.
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