OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research study was to determine whether a 1-hour online continuing medical education (CME) course focused on nutrition for type 2 diabetes would result in a gain in nutrition knowledge by practicing physicians. METHODS A practicing physician and dietitian collaborated to develop an online CME course (both webinar and self-study versions) on type 2 diabetes. This ...

Prompted by evidence that the recently-adopted arrangements for ongoing eduction among established general practitioners are unsatisfactory, the first of a pair of papers examined the theoretical basis of continuing education for general practice and proposed a model of selfdirected learning in which the experience of established practitioners is connected, through the media of reading, reflect...

The field of professional medical continuing education is changing rapidly. The traditional format for continuing education for health care professionals has long been classroom learning. This form of learning has been found to be relatively ineffective in changing learners' practice patterns. The reasons most often cited are that there is little interaction and that the learning does not occur...

BACKGROUND Continuing pharmacy education is becoming mandatory in most countries in order to keep the professional license valid. Increasing number of pharmacists are now using e-learning as part of their continuing education. Consequently, the increasing popularity of this method of education calls for standardization and validation practices. The conducted research explored validation aspects...

There is growing recognition of the need to maximize efforts to bring evidence into practice in low-resource settings, following realization that the gap between evidence and practice in developing countries results in ineffective treatments that drain their health systems (1). In health systems with few resources, putting evidence into practice is proving exceedingly challenging for reasons th...

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OBJECTIVE This survey involved medical reporters to identify degrees of theoretical and actual compliance to recommendations for health reporting. METHODS The questionnaire was addressed to 450 Italian journalists and obtained a redemption of 23.1%. RESULTS Major gaps between theoretical agreement and professional practice were: need of scientific background and continuing education; import...