Avoid a restrictive evaluation and limit the pressure on participants
Training: a major issue for the pharmaceutical industry
HIV, viral hepatitis, invasive fungic diseases: within such specialised medical fields, knowledge is constantly evolving. To remain credible before high-level hospital doctors, Gilead laboratory’s hospital representatives must regularly follow particularly demanding training courses, which are indispensable for this laboratory that has rapidly conquered a leading position in in the world.
Modernising the evaluation process
All Gilead “Products” or “Competition” training sessions include an evaluation of their participants. Before turning to electronic voting keypads, the laboratory relied on paper-based evaluations. Understandably, correcting these 20-question tests given to some sixty people represented a particularly time consuming task. In 2006, the laboratory opted for the electronic voting solution, which has considerably facilitated these evaluations, which are now corrected automatically and instantaneously by the PowerVote software program.
Immediate results
The displaying of results in real time following each vote allows for immediate feedback. For each question, it is possible to determine the participants’ level of knowledge acquisition and to further develop any themes that have not been fully understood. At the end of the voting, transferring the results to Microsoft Excel allows for a statistical processing of all these data, which can then be analysed by the entire team. Furthermore, this system has made these evaluations more fun and therefore more palatable to the representatives: “This allows us to avoid a restrictive evaluation and to limit the pressure on participants,” explains the Director of Training at Gilead Sciences.
A turnkey solution
The Gilead laboratory has chosen the PowerVote turnkey solution for its meetings. Indeed, a PowerVote technician travels to each interactive meeting to manage all technical aspects of the voting system. This frees the hands of the event organiser and, as the Director of Training points out, allows them to focus on the subject at hand, and to comment on the PowerPoint presentation and the results displayed “live”.
The choice of interactivity has completely won over both this director of training and the system’s participants, because for the past few years, the Gilead laboratory has relied on this electronic voting system which it plans on making use of again and again!
About Gilead
Gilead is a biopharmaceutical company specialised in the discovery, development and commercialisation of innovative medicines for those fields whose medical needs remain unsatisfied. Its mission is to improve the care of patients suffering from life-threatening diseases all around the world.
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