Introduction

As the leading private sector health care education and training provider in Sri Lanka, International Institute of Health Sciences (IIHS) has initiated island wide educational services. From the beginning of year 2016, IIHS was able to provide successful and user friendly online learning platform (IIHS-LMS) to all of their internal and external students. The peak of this service became in the year 2017, when IIHS won the award for the best learner management system award among commonwealth countries. Excelling at community service in local healthcare sector, IIHS has introduced this system to government service nurses.

Senior management of IIHS has found that their is a lack of post-graduate nursing education providers in Sri lanka. Specially when it comes to specialization in a particular area, local nursing professionals face difficulties not only in finding a proper qualification but also an internationally accredited program. IIHS able to fulfill this gap by introducing the first online specialization course in sri lanka for nursing professionals. This includes certificate level courses which has accredited by well known and subject specialized international organizations.