A REVIEW of postgraduate or continuing education of physicians in the New England area of the United States requires at the outset clear definition of the ground to be covered in this presentation. It is apparent that the term 'postgraduate' does not have precisely the same meaning for members of the British and the American medical professions. On inquiry it has been learned that in the United...

BACKGROUND Recent research has evidenced that although investment in Continuing Medical Education (CME), both in terms of participation as well as financial resources allocated to it, has been steadily increasing to catch up with accelerating advances in health information and technology, effectiveness of CME is reported to be rather limited. Poor and disproportional returns can be attributed t...

More than 100 years ago Abraham Flexner’s report changed medical education in the United States (USA) and consequently worldwide. He simply used a gold standard against which all medical schools at that time were measured (Cook et al., 2010). The report at that time was concerned mainly with undergraduate medical education. Since then medical education has developed immensely and flourished int...

Discussions about competency-based education are occurring at all levels of medical education: medical school, residency, and continuing education. Competencies are also an important aspect of certification and are likely to be a part of physician licensure. The 6 General Competencies from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)--patient care, medical knowledge, practic...

PURPOSE The authors' primary goal was to provide a comprehensive and current review of the literature surrounding ethics education for medical students. Following this review, the authors summarize the deficits in the current literature and provide recommendations for future inquiries on medical ethics education. METHOD In 2004, the authors searched MEDLINE and PubMed using the following sear...

True integration requires a shift in all levels of medical and allied health education; one that emphasizes team learning, practicing, and evaluating from the beginning of each students' educational experience whether that is as physician, nurse, psychologist, or any other health profession. Integration of healthcare services will not occur until medical education focuses, like the human body, ...

BACKGROUND The 1990 contract for general practitioners altered the provision of continuing medical education. AIM This study set out to examine doctors' experiences of postgraduate education before and after the contract and their preferences for the provision of postgraduate education. METHOD In 1991 a structured questionnaire was sent to 1959 doctors registered on the database held by the...

Continuing medical education's transition from an emphasis on dissemination to changing clinical practice has made it increasingly necessary for CME providers to develop effective interorganizational collaborations. Although interorganizational collaboration has become commonplace in most sectors of government, business, and academia, our review of the literature and experience as practitioners...

Control and evaluation are major secrets of an organization's survival.Universities, as research and educational organizations, need to be evaluated in order to survive. The results of educational activities encompass a vast spectrum including the graduates, researchers and planners, scientific publications, as well as satisfaction of students, parents, profossors and staff (Ramsden, 1996).Th...

background: training provided in medical faculties is mainly composed of two phases: preclinical and clinical. preclinical period, or the first three years, consists of theoretical classes and practical implementations to develop vocational skills. in the clinical period, students are given applied courses. objectives: this study aimed to determine the role of demographic characteristics and me...