Continuing education for general practice: a life long journey.

Improving continuing medical education by enhancing interactivity: lessons from Iran

Introduction: Continuing Medical Education (CME) has beenconsidered as a lifelong commitment for doctors to provide theoptimal care for patients. Despite a long history of creating CMEprograms, outcomes are far from ideal. The present qualitativestudy aims to clarify the barriers affecting effectiveness of the CMEprograms in Iran based on the experiences of general practitioners.Methods: Sixtee...

A process of becoming: the stages of new nursing graduate professional role transition.

Newly graduated nurses are entering the work force and finding that they have neither the practice expertise nor the confidence to navigate what has become a highly dynamic and intense clinical environment burdened by escalating levels of patient acuity and nursing workload. This research used qualitative methods to build on and mature aspects of the new nurse's transition experience into acute...

Transforming the journey for newly licensed registered nurses.

Newly licensed nurses entering into practice experience stressors related to daily challenges. This evidence-based practice project implemented a nurse residency program designed to ease the transition during the first year of practice. Newly licensed nurses at a Midwestern health care organization were enrolled in a yearlong nurse residency program and were required to attend one 4-hour sessio...

Life long learning and physician revalidation in Europe

It is increasingly accepted that the completion of undergraduate medical education is only the first step in a process of life long learning for physicians. At its simplest, life long learning involves participation in continuing medical education (CME), designed to keep physicians up-to-date on clinical developments and medical knowledge. The broader concept of continuing professional developm...

The journey to mandatory continuing education in Illinois.