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L C STEEVES

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PubMed1965

THE NEED FOR CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION.

Continuing medical education is an essential feature of the practice of modern medicine since it furnishes the means to maintain the doctor's ability to provide quality patient care.TO ENSURE THAT CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION IS PROVIDED EFFICIENTLY AND IN THE BEST QUALITY, AND UTILIZED FULLY, IT IS NECESSARY THAT: (1) the medical faculty inculcate in the student the concept of lifelong learning; (2) the practitioner adopt less time-consuming patterns of practice, to free more of his time for learning; (3) community hospital-based clinical teaching be provided universally; and (4) research be conducted to determine the best of current teaching methods and develop better ones. Conflicting efforts to meet these needs by practitioners (whose primary responsibility it is) and by organized medicine, specialty societies, voluntary health agencies and others have led to inefficient use of medical faculty teachers. The key parties in continuing medical education-practitioner and teacher-can learn best in medical school-administered programs, which need be supported by all other interested organizations.

Education, Medical, Continuing↗
PubMed1963

Extramural continuing medical education.

The experience of one Faculty of Medicine in developing programs of continuing medical education in community hospitals is presented. After mention of the importance of regular reading of the medical literature, and the problems created by its growing volume, the necessity of supplementary programs in community hospitals is pointed out. The different patterns of community hospital meetings that evolved to meet various circumstances in the Atlantic Provinces are detailed. A "course" consisting of six weekly evening meetings, followed by morning case presentations and discussions, has proved the most successful form of continuing medical education in community hospitals. Better than half the doctors in the community attend, and active participation is the rule. The importance of advance planning, the techniques of advance planning, and the expense of operating the program are listed. A projection is made that 46 such courses would be required to cover the four Atlantic Provinces adequately, with a staff equivalent to eight full-time teachers and a budget in excess of $200,000. The fact that this is only 7.5% of Canada's medical population indicates the magnitude of the unmet needs of continuing medical education in this country.

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