Continuous medical education activities; Case No. 4

Continuous medical education in ultrasonography.

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 ...

Medical education activities of the Association of American Medical Colleges.

Sir—Drawing ability could be disrupted by many neurological disorders, of which graphic neglect after unilateral brain damage (generally of right parietal cortex) is most frequent. In this disorder, patients draw preferentially on the right side of the paper, omit and deform objects on the left side, but judge their drawings to be complete. Graphic neglect can become especially evident in the w...

Case studies and medical education.

In this issue of the journal Christopher Coope presents three sorts of worries about the use of case studies in medical ethics teaching. The first is that heavy reliance on case studies 'tends to exaggerate the degree to which morality is controversial'; the second is that 'it is often quite unclear what problems count as moral problems'; the third is that there are 'limits as to what we may re...