ICTs USE, FROM AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO SUPPORT THE TRAINING ON OPHIDISM, A PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM.

The present research and development work focuses on ophidism or ophidic accident, a forgotten public health problem normally treated with antiophidic serum application. Complications are sometimes caused by the patients' delay to go to a medical centre and the health professionals' lack of knowledge on the ophidism treatment. In this work, we design, under the canvas model, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) called Introduction to ophidic accident in order to offer a new accessible, massive and dynamic training strategy. It is nourished by the students' contribution, unlike traditional training programmes. For this reason, it is intended to promote other forms of training on prevention and knowledge of the ophidic accident, which constitute a priority in the Colombian territory. To conclude, we highlight that there is a considerable number of underestimated cases due to the inadequate registration in the notification forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]