Continuous medical education activities; Answers to Case No. 1

BEME Guide No. 1: Best Evidence Medical Education.

There is a need to move from opinion-based education to evidence-based education. Best evidence medical education (BEME) is the implementation, by teachers in their practice, of methods and approaches to education based on the best evidence available. It involves a professional judgement by the teacher about his/her teaching taking into account a number of factors-the QUESTS dimensions. The Qua...

Continuous medical education in ultrasonography.

Generating Indirect Answers to Yes-No Questions

An indirect answer to! a Yes-No question conversationally implicates the speaker's evaluation of the truth of the questioned proposition. We present the approach to generation used in our implemented system for generating and interpret~ing indirect answers to Yes-No questions in English. Generation of a discourse plan is performed in two phases: content planning and plan pruning. During content...

Modern aspects of continuous medical education.

Continuous medical education represents the final and often most poorly understood stage of physician education. It is defined as any and all ways by which doctors learn after the formal completion of their training. While evidence-based medicine is defined as "the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions for the care of individual patients. The pra...

Organizing an effective continuous medical education session.

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 ...