OBJECTIVE Headache is a common condition not always managed satisfactorily by primary care providers (PCPs). In an effort to improve headache care, the Curitiba City Hall in consortia with Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brazil developed an educational program directed to the PCPs. The goal of the project was to evaluate, to update and to train the PCP on headache knowl...

Hill, et al. found that ESRD was associated with a fourfold higher risk of diabetic foot complications, defined as infection, ulcer, gangrene, or amputation. Lower extremity amputations A lthough diabetes is a well-known cause of foot ulcerations—dialysis, end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) have proven to be independent risk factors in the development and course of ...

INTRODUCTION Criteria for maintenance of certification (MOC) emphasize the importance of competencies such as communication, professionalism, systems-based care, and practice performance in addition to medical knowledge. Success of this new competency paradigm is dependent on physicians' willingness to engage in activities that focus on less traditional competencies. We undertook this analysis ...

BACKGROUND Continuing medical education (CME) is compulsory for physicians in Iran. Recent studies in Iran show that modifications of CME elements are necessary to improve the effectiveness of the educational programmes. Other studies point to an inappropriate, even irrational drug prescribing. Based on a needs assessment study regarding CME for general physicians in the East Azerbaijan provinc...

BACKGROUND In recent years, medical practice has followed two different paradigms: evidence-based medicine (EBM) and values-based medicine (VBM). There is an urgent need to promote medical education that strengthens the relationship between these two paradigms. This work is designed to establish the foundations for a continuing medical education (CME) program aimed at encouraging the dialogue b...

A continuing medical education (CME) program in rheumatoid arthritis was implemented and evaluated in six community hospitals. It was targeted at primary care physicians and utilized physicians identified by their peers as being educationally influential for the dissemination of content knowledge. Although inpatient and outpatient audits of physician records demonstrated little change in three ...

A pilot program, CME, is described for generating a physical genetic map from hybridization fingerprinting data. CME is implemented in the parallel constraint logic programming language ElipSys. The features of constraint logic programming are used to enable the integration of pre-existing mapping information (partial probe orders from cytogenetic maps and local physical maps) into the global m...

introduction. need assessment is one of the most important steps in planning any educational program. in this cross-sectional study, educational needs of general physicians were questioned in east-azarbaijan. methods. according to different need assessment sources and methods, educational needs and related learning objectives were determined for general physicians of iran. then considering expe...