The Southern Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. The following article was designed for physicians in all specialties, especially those in primary care, and the estimated time for completion is 1 hour. This CME activity was planned and produced in accordance with the ACCME Essenti...

BACKGROUND The internet has had a strong impact on how physicians access information and on the development of continuing medical education activities. Evaluation of the effectiveness of these activities has lagged behind their development. METHODS To determine the effectiveness of a group of 48 internet continuing medical education (CME) activities, case vignette surveys were administered to...

This report from the FOPE II Education of the Pediatrician Workgroup assesses the current status and future trends of pediatric education. The attributes of each level of the education process (undergraduate, residency, fellowship, continuing medical education [CME]) are considered within the framework of lifelong learning. The pediatric education of nonpediatrician providers is carefully consi...

of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (page 1295) advances our understanding of the continuing education of physicians and thus its contribution to health care and health care outcomes. Despite some limitations, explored below, it does so in several important ways. First, the article provides a more complex and dynamic definition of continuing medical education (CME) than the teacher-driv...

1 Director of Education Programs, Harvard Medical International 2 Professor, Harvard Medical School Address for Correspondence: Dr Elizabeth G. Armstrong, Harvard Medical International, 1135 Tremont Street, Boston MA 02120, USA. Email: [email protected] Do our Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes provide significant measurable and desirable results? The key metric for e...

background & purpose: the purpose of this research was to evaluate the quantity and quality of continuing medical education programs from the viewpoint of general medical practitioners in ilam province. methods: the research method was descriptive survey and the statistic sample was a group of 61 general medical practitioners who have been working in ilam during 2010-2011 and were chosen by sim...

METHOD OF INSTRUCTION Participants should read the continuing medical education (CME) activity in its entirety. After reviewing the material, please complete the self-assessment test, which consists of a series of multiple-choice questions. To answer these questions online and receive real-time results, please visit http://www.dulaneyfoundation.org and click “Online Courses.” Upon completing th...

BACKGROUND The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Evidence Report identified and assessed audience characteristics (internal factors) and external factors that influence the effectiveness of continuing medical education (CME) in changing physician behavior. METHODS Thirteen studies examined a series of CME audience characteristics (internal factors), and six studies looked at e...