Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons

Continuing medical education and continuing professional development: international comparisons.

[From continuing medical education to continuing professional development].

Medicine is constantly changing due to new information and technology. As medical practitioners we need to keep abreast with these changes in order to deliver the best possible management to our patients. Traditionally, this was by Continuing Medical Education (CME) in the form of formal lectures or seminars with time based credits points awarded. Such methods have been used for over 20 years. ...

Continuing Professional Development in Primary Health Care Quality Development integrated with Continuing Medical Education

The impact of clinical governance on continuing medical education and continuing professional development.

The Government's commitment to clinical governance has been established in the White Paper entitled "A First Class Service: Quality in the new NHS". There are several definitions of clinical governance but the simplest I have seen is in the paper on Clinical Governance in Northern Ireland "Corporate Accountability for clinical performance". In Northern Ireland we are being allowed to lag behind...

Continuing Education of Medical Community

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