The Relationship between Commercial Support and Bias in Continuing Medical Education Activities: A Review of the Literature

The ACCME commissioned and has just released this literature review:
Cervero RM, Jiang H. The Relationship between Commercial Support and Bias in Continuing Medical Education Activities: A Review of the Literature. Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, June 2008.
Background and Purpose (excerpt) : As the foundations for modern approaches to medical education were being built in [...]

CME Congress 2008 Plenary Presentations

   The 2008 CME Congress was held in Vancouver from May 29 - 31. The conference organizers have kindly made available the PowerPoint presentations of the plenary speakers.   (The documents are in PDF format. And be patient, they download rather slowly.) The slides are not as compelling as are the words of excellent speakers such as Glenn Regehr, [...]

How physicians learn and how to design learning experiences for them (Moore)

This chapter is from the final report of Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning, the Macy Foundation report on continuing health education.
Moore DE Jr. How physicians learn and how to design learning experiences for them. From: Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning. New York: Josiah [...]

Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning (Macy Foundation) - the monograph

The final report is available as of May 16, 2008:
Continuing Education in the Health Professions: Improving Healthcare Through Lifelong Learning. A Conference Sponsored by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation. Chaired by Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., M.Sc. Bermuda,  November 2007. Edited by Mary Hager, Sue Russell, and Suzanne W. Fletcher, M.D., M.Sc. New York: Josiah Macy, [...]

Accreditation, certification, and licensure: How six general competencies are influencing medical education and patient care

  The article below was recently published in the Journal of Medical Licensure and Discipline. This is the journal of the Federation of State Medical Boards. Copies of the article may be ordered from the journal Web site.
Mazmanian PE, Galbraith R, Miller SH, Schyve PM, Kopelow M, Thompson JN, Aparicio A, Davis DA, Kahn NB [...]

The effectiveness of self-assessment on the identification of learner needs, learner activity, and impact on clinical practice

   This new BEME Guide was just published in Medical Teacher:
Colthart I, Bagnall G, Evans A, Allbutt H, Haig A, Illing J, McKinstry B.  The effectiveness of self-assessment on the identification of learner needs, learner activity, and impact on clinical practice: BEME Guide no. 10. Med Teach 2008 Mar;30(2):124-45. [subscription required]
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Cochrane Library: Free access for all?

  In an ideal world, all health information would be available to all people. The databases contained in the Cochrane Library are an invaluable resource for health professionals, particularly the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and there is a global movement to make the Cochrane Library available to all.
A number of countries now offer their [...]

Self-Assessment: JCEHP theme issue

  The Winter 2008 issue of the Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions contains a number of excellent articles on self-assessment [available by subscription only]. Click on the links below to view the PubMed records for each article.
Joan Sargeant. Toward a common understanding of self-assessment (p 1-4)
Ronald M. Epstein, Daniel J. Siegel, Jordan Silberman. [...]

Medical Education 2007: Top downloaded articles, with free full text

  Here are the articles most downloaded from Medical Education in 2007. For now, free full text is available.

Learning styles: do they really exist? [letter] Kieran Walsh Volume 41, Issue 6, Pages 618-620.

Experience-based learning: a model linking the processes and outcomes of medical students’ workplace learning [by] Tim Dornan, Henny Boshuizen, Nigel King, Albert Scherpbier [...]

The reported validity and reliability of methods for evaluating continuing medical education: A systematic review

  This review appears in the March 2008 issue of Academic Medicine [subscription required]:
Ratanawongsa N, Thomas PA, Marinopoulos SS, Dorman T, Wilson LM, Ashar BH, Magaziner JL, Miller RG, Prokopowicz GP, Qayyum R, Bass EB. The reported validity and reliability of methods for evaluating continuing medical education: A systematic review.  Acad Med 2008; 83(3):274-283.
PURPOSE: To [...]