New CME guidelines advise paradigm shift in physician education
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 08:21
in Health & Medicine
New evidence-based educational guidelines evaluate the effectiveness of current continuing medical education (CME) practices and provide the first set of recommendations on how those practices need to change in the future. Published in the March issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP), Effectiveness of Continuing Medical Education: American College of Chest Physicians Evidence-Based Educational Guidelines suggests the majority of CME is based on didactic education, the least effective form of adult education, where the physician-learner is not actively engaged in the learning process...