Table 3 Important questions for virtual training adaptation

Capability assessment

Do the trainees have access to the required resources and infrastructure to benefit from online delivery?

Do the trainees have the required technical understanding to participate in online training?

Does the training organisation have the necessary QI expertise and facilitation capacity?

Does the training organisation have the requisite technical support?

What are the current challenges faced by the training organisation in delivering traditional QI programmes?

Make or buy

Does the organisation have the required resources, skills, and technical support to develop an online QI training solution from scratch?

Does the organisation have an already available QI platform that can be adapted to deliver QI training?

Are there any already available external platforms or QI resources that the organisation can use for delivering training?

What distance learning modes does the training organisation currently incorporates in traditional QI training?

What will be the financial impact for the make vs. buy decision and does the training organisation have the required budget?

What is the opinion of the key stakeholders regarding distance learning delivery and make vs buy decision?

Does the training organisation have the resources to conduct pilot testing of the e-delivery prior to the launch?

Structure and content

Are the training objectives, topics, and activities suitable for distance delivery?

Does the organisation want to develop or use their own content or adapt from already available content?

Would the programme be delivered completely online, or a blended learning approach would be used?

How can the social and networking aspects of face-to-face programmes adapted to online delivery?

How will the facilitators provide distance learning support and coaching?

How will contextual factors be incorporated into programme design?

Programme evaluation and implementation

What is important to the training organisation in terms of evaluation?

(For example: programme attendance, training reaction, patient level outcome, organisational outcomes, content knowledge testing, QI project outcomes, feedback on training mode)

How will feedback and evaluation data be collected and who will be responsible?

Will the evaluation be short term or long term?

Will the training organisation provide extended coaching online/distance coaching support and how?

What implementation support will be provided and how?