A Novel Program of Continuing Medical Education

Autor: Dollinger, Malin R., Korenman, Stanley G., Solomon, David H., Brayton, Donald F.
Zdroj: JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; May 1972, Vol. 220 Issue: 5 p714-716, 3p
Abstrakt: Practicing physicians have great demands on their time and energy and it is increasingly difficult to continue medical education on a systematic and regular basis. Most continuing education courses stress passive transfer of information in a classroom type of situation, typically a short burst of didactic instruction lasting one to five days, usually at a medical center remote from the physician's home and area of practice. Most of these formal courses do not involve continuous education over a relatively long period of time, or active participation on the part of the doctor.During the past three years, practicing physicians in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, the full-time staff of the Department of Medicine at Harbor General Hospital, and California Regional Medical Programs Area IV (UCLA) have recognized the need for a continuing education program which would keep practicing physicians, especially generalists and internists, up-to-date in various specialties of
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