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participants of the e-courses were pharmacists only from the 
Local Pharmaceutical Board in Krakow. In following years phar
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macists from other Local Pharmaceutical Boards subscribed to 
the system and nowadays there are users from all twenty Local 
Pharmaceutical Boards in Poland.

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One of the assumptions at the planning stage was high 
scientiic level of the offered educational material.To provide 
independent reviewers opinion, all courses before publication 
need to be approved by the Scientiic Committee, which consists 
of three professors of pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy 
of Jagiellonian University Medical College.
users
On May 2010 the total amount of registered users of the system 
e-duk@cja was 11 500, which includes more than 50% of all 
registered pharmacists in Poland [6]. In average there are 300-
-500 users who log in daily depending on the week day. The 
Fig. 1.
e-duk@cja system – number of visits in the period of time from May 18th 2009 to May 18th 2010 [8]
total number of certiicates distributed between February 2005 
and May 2010 exceeded 73 000 [7].
After Poland had accessed the European Union in May 1
st
2004, many young healthcare professionals, including pharma-
cists, decided to work abroad. Nowadays there is a signiicant 
number of Polish pharmacists working in Great Britain, especially 
in Tesco and Boots community pharmacies. There are also Polish 
pharmacists who work in community and hospital pharmacies 
in Ireland, Germany, France and Norway. Some of them treat 
the stay as a professional experience and perfect pharmaceuti-
cal language training but probably consider coming back to 
Poland. For such people e-learning is the only available tool 
to gain educational credits and prolong the license in Poland. 
Using Google Analytics tool [8] we have recently observed 
an increase of visits from countries such as the UK, Ireland and 
Germany (Picture 3). This proves the growing interest of Polish 
pharmacists working abroad and their participation in the life-long 
learning process [8].

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