In Ireland, Continuing Medical Education (CME) for GPs is delivered by a national network of 37 tutors who coordinate learning sessions for between 2 and 5 small groups of physicians (SGL). Each group meets up to 8 times per year; 1100 to 1700 doctors attend CME-SGL nationally each month, with numbers increased since the Irish Medical Practitioners Act. This study investigated whether CME-SGL i...

INTRODUCTION Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) is a mechanism for joining quality improvement (QI) in health care to continuing medical education (CME) systems together. Although QI practices and CME approaches have been recognized for years, what emerges from their integration is largely unfamiliar, because it requires the collaboration of CME providers and stakehol...

Concerns about the influence of the pharmaceutical and medical device industries on continuing medical education (CME) have been voiced frequently over the past decade.1 Reliance on industry funding increases the potential for bias. Industry-supported CME often emphasizes conditions that can be treated with newer drugs or devices rather than those with the greatest public health impact, and ris...

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. ...

introduction: continuing medical education (cme) has been considered as a lifelong commitment for doctors to provide the optimal care for patients. despite a long history of creating cme programs, outcomes are far from ideal. the present qualitative study aims to clarify the barriers affecting effectiveness of the cme programs in iran based on the experiences of general practitioners. methods: ...

Evaluation in continuing medical education (CME) is a traditional part of planning but is often not approached with the same level of sophistication as other parts of the teaching/learning transaction. An understanding of the models and schema in the literature allows broader and more reasoned thinking about effective evaluation. This article briefly describes and compares several models and sc...

The current continuing medical education (CME) cycle began on January 1, 2007, and will end on December 31, 2009. Statistics for the 2004-2006 CME cycle will not be available until May 31, 2008. The author provides an update on trends in osteopathic CME programs and details minor changes to CME requirements for state licensure. In addition, this article explains changes to several policies of t...

This activity offers CE credits for: 1. Physicians (CME) 2. Other ACTIVITY GOAL To understand the conceptual framework for integrating biomedicine and Asian medicine. LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this CE activity, participants should be able to: • Discuss the limitations and advantages of biomedicine and Asian medicine • Assess when it is more beneficial to use biomedicine and when Asian m...