President's page: ACC's continuing education programs: setting up systems to meet members' changing needs.

Views of General Practitioners and Clinical Medical School Faculty to Adapt the Educational needs of Continuing Medical Education programs

Introduction: Continuing education is a necessity in the world. To develop educational programs in the first step, educational needs must be properly identified. To train general practitioners (GPs), the present study was conducted at Golestan University of Medical Sciences in order to assess the needs of continuing education programs in view of general practitioners participating in the progra...

President's page: the ACC's international mission: learning, leading, and sharing.

ICT education in library and information science programs An analysis of the perceptions of undergraduate students

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore students’ perceptions and views of the instructors, in relation to information and communications technology (ICT) education in library and information science (LIS) programs. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was carried out among students from the two LIS departments in Kuwait. A focus group was conducted with faculty member...

President's page: continuing investment in "state-of-the-art" physician education- an ACCF program of high net worth.

In response to comments and questions from many members over the last few months about future American College of Cardiology (ACC) plans for educational programs, I will use this issue to clarify this critical area of emphasis, declared first and foremost in the College’s mission statement. The ACC, incorporated as a teaching institution in 1949, has always had education fundamentally at its ce...

Identifying the factors affecting the development of continuing medical education in the University of Medical Sciences

Introduction and purpose: Due to the rapid and rapid transformation of human knowledge and information, everything is changing rapidly. Organizations interact with the environment as an open system and need to respond to environmental changes in order to survive. Since human resources are the most important factor and axis of organizations, preparing these resources to face changes and update t...