Much of the literature outlines the increasing use of ELBs as part of clinical competency training for healthcare professionals. The question of quality control in training in competencies is coming increasingly under the microscope from various stakeholders such as funders, the professions themselves and service users. The sample papers perused in the literature review, in general espouse the positive attributes of ELBs over paper base systems. Deficits in areas such as data analysis and traceability in paper based system were traced through and highlighted in the discourse. In addition it was shown that paper based systems are extremely cumbersome when it comes to stakeholder visibility in the clinical competency training process. Advances in information and communications technology (ICT) in recent years, particularly in the domains of infrastructure, relational databases, web technologies and cloud based computing solutions have enabled platforms to emerge which can allow rapid deployment of solutions such as ELBs. This paper is an example of a case study of a rapidly deployed ELB for audiology students undertaking a yearlong clinical practicum. This case study clearly delineates the use of a rapidly deployed cloud based technology solution into a clinical education setting. The platform identified and used in this case study is Caspio ?. This paper also found that the use of ELBs is not only beneficial in the initial competency based training of healthcare professionals, but the literature advises that ELBs have a very significant role to play in CPD for the entire career of the health care professional.
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