Concerns about health care costs and quality are focusing increasing attention on physicians and their continuing medical education (CME). These concerns have produced several calls for "a new definition, " "a new vision, " "repositioning, " "reinventing, " and "transforming" CME. However, differences in conceptualizations and vocabularies have introduced appreciable confusion in recommending c...

Over the period of a year I have systematically recorded any episodes of continuing medical education (CME) that I have attended, and reflect on the effectiveness of this system in terms of whether it has achieved its objective, that is, has my behaviour changed, and whether the existence of the need to record CME has influenced this effect. I consider which aspects of CME have been most benefi...

This activity offers CE credits for: 1. Physicians (CME) 2. Other ACTIVITY GOAL This article reviews the mechanisms by which NMDA receptor dysfunction might lead to the complex patterns of symptoms and neurocognitive deficits seen in schizophrenia and on methods by which glutamate-based theories can be used to develop new treatment methodologies. LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this CE activi...

Abstract It has been proposed that we think of continuing medical education (CME) as a two-stranded helix, in which one strand represents the internal characteristics of the learner-physician, the other strand the culture and environment in which he or she practices and lives. In many countries, the product of these two strands has been increasingly termed ‘continuing professional development’...

This first edition of Continuing Medical Education for General Practitioners contains a foreword, preface, list of nine contributors, list of boxes and figures, table of contents, three parts, 12 chapters, 30 boxes, three figures, references, and an index. The book is presented as a ix + 163 page A5 soft cover publication. Although some chapters have embedded some definitions of terms, there is...

This article introduces the new Continuing Medical Education (CME) section of the interactive Journal of Radiology Case Reports. This section provides SA-CMEs which are a new requirement for Maintenance of Certification (MOC) by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) and other medical specialties.

Organizing frameworks that affect medical education include requirements for residency education set out by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), board certification requirements of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN), and requirements of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) for awarding continuing medical education (CM...

Accreditation Statement This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American College of Surgeons and the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma. The American College Surgeons is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical edu...

Maintenance of professional competence remains an exercise of lifelong learning and an essential requirement for evidence -based medical practice. Physicians attend continuing medical education (CME) programs to update their knowledge. Often CME programs remain the main source of updating current information. CME organizers have considerable responsibility in determining appropriate curriculum ...