The present postgraduate education allowance structure for general practitioners is unacceptable and inadequate on a number of counts. Improvements could be made in continuing medical education by involving learners more actively, through giving them greater ownership of their continuing medical education aims and by integrating it with the current moves towards reaccreditation. Current proposa...

Medical training in radiology should be viewed as a continuum that begins in medical school and proceeds throughout the years in practice. Unfortunately, there are significant barriers to providing continuing medical education. One key barrier is the physical separation between the information source and the workplace. A multimedia medical library distributed via wide area networks has been dev...

OBJECTIVE To determine the views of general practitioners about professional reaccreditation. DESIGN Postal questionnaire. SUBJECTS All 278 general practitioner principals working in Cleveland. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES General practitioner characteristics; attitudes to reaccreditation; and views on the development, conduct, content, and format of reaccreditation. RESULTS 210 out of 278 (76...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated how leadership is learned in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) from a multi-national perspective by interviewing EMS providers from multiple nations working in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. METHODS A phenomenological, qualitative methodology was developed and 19 EMS providers from multiple nations were interviewed in June 2013. Interview questions focused o...

Both the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada have established standards for efficacious, unbiased continuing education. We have gone well beyond traditional continuing medical education into continuing professional development, which encourages our members to engage in self-assessment, self-reflection and activities that allow us to ...

The Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is a key strategy used in the United States to assure an adequate surge capacity healthcare workforce for response to disasters. A survey of Hawaiian healthcare providers (n = 1,057) was conducted to identify factors that influence interest, ability, and willingness to join the MRC; 468 (44.3%) healthcare providers responded. Overall, females were more likely to ...

Human factors (HF) is a discipline often drawn upon when there is a need to train people to perform complex, high-stakes tasks and effectively assess their performance. Complex tasks often present unique challenges for training and assessment. HF has developed specialized techniques that have been effective in overcoming several of these challenges in work settings such as aviation, process con...

Closure of medical schools or the barring of "live patient" contact during an epidemic or pandemic is potentially disruptive to medical education. During the SARS epidemic, the use of web-based learning, role play, video vignettes and both live and mannequin-based simulated patients minimised disruptions to medical education. This article examines the pedagogical innovations that allow clinical...

INTRODUCTION Over the last decade, the use of medical marijuana has expanded dramatically; it is now permitted in 16 states and the District of Columbia. Our study of family physicians in Colorado is the first to gather information about physician attitudes toward this evolving practice. METHODS We distributed an anonymous web-based electronic survey to the 1727 members of the Colorado Academ...

While the main thrust of medical audit has been towards improving clinical performance, there has been increasing recognition of its impact as a method of continuing medical education. Thus, the Royal College of Physicians stated that "education is the most useful product of audit,"' and the Royal College of Surgeons noted the educational importance of audit "for both seniors and juniors."' Fur...