EDUCPRA: Cuba’s specialized web portal for education and training in radiological protection

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Maryzury Valdés Ramos
José Francisco Manzano de Arma
Omar F. García Lima
Niurka González Rodríguez
Isis M. Fernández Gómez
Adlin López Díaz
Ailza Castro Soler
Juan Cárdenas Herrera
Gladys M. López Bejerano
Ofelia M. Fornet Rodríguez
Maidelys Rosa Rodríguez Rodríguez

Abstract

The paper focuses on a high-priority subject nationwide: the growing need for training in radiation protection for occupationally exposed workers and the strength of having specialized web portals on this matter. The Specialized Web Portal, EDUCPRA "Cuba's Portal for Education and Training in Radiological Protection", has been developed in this context, which makes available to its users, in an easy and integrated way, access to contents, regulations, national and international standards, directories, applications and services related to the matter that allow the identification, dissemination, and promotion of the training capacities in radiation protection. The main objective of EDUCPRA is to become the technological support of the National Strategy for Education and Training in Radiological Protection. EDUCPRA allows supervising the operation of the education and training activity in Radiological Protection in Cuba, and contributing to the processes of identification of needs, certification of personnel, and competence recognition of radiation protection courses.  Through EDUCPRA, the available capacities to the country can be promoted to be able to comply with the training requirements established in the national regulatory framework, and the number of personnel trained by practice and occupational category can be known, allowing the evaluation of the effectiveness of the national training program. EDUCPRÁ will give visibility to the performance indicators of the training in Radiological protection in the country.

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Valdés Ramos, M., Manzano de Arma, J. F., García Lima, O. F., González Rodríguez, N., Fernández Gómez, I. M., López Díaz, A., Castro Soler, A., Cárdenas Herrera, J., López Bejerano, G. M., Fornet Rodríguez, O. M., & Rodríguez Rodríguez, M. R. (1). EDUCPRA: Cuba’s specialized web portal for education and training in radiological protection. Nucleus, (74), 1-6. Retrieved from http://nucleus.cubaenergia.cu/index.php/nucleus/article/view/790
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Panorama Nuclear

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