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ABSTRACT: Cost analyses approaches in medical education: there are no simple solutions

CONTEXT: Medical education is expensive. Although we have made progress in working out 'what works' in medical education, there are few data on whether medical education offers value relative to cost. Research into cost and value in medical education is beset by problems. One of the major problems is the lack

ABSTRACT: A Clinician Performance Initiative to Improve Quality of Care for Patients with Osteoporosis

Abstract Background: Osteoporosis is a widespread but largely preventable disease. Improved adherence to screening and treatment recommendations is needed to reduce fracture and mortality rates. Additionally, clinicians face increasing demands to demonstrate proficient quality patient care aligning with evidence-based standards. Methods: A three-stage, clinician-focused performance improvement (PI) continuing medical education

ABSTRACT: Preventive intervention in diabetes: a new model for continuing medical education

Competence and skills in overcoming clinical inertia for diabetes treatment, and actually supporting and assisting the patient through adherence and compliance (as opposed to just reiterating what they "should" be doing and then assigning them the blame if they fail) is a key component to success in addressing diabetes, and

MANUSCRIPT: Medical Education and Professional Training— Changing the Trajectory

At least 15 reports have called for change in medical education in the last decade ending 2010. The problems facing medical education have been thoroughly elucidated. There is remarkable congruence in the recommendations of these reports. There reports have called for changes in terms of integrating the educational continuum, need for evaluation and research, new methods of

ABSTRACT: Mythmaking in medical education and medical practice

BACKGROUND: Despite the emergence of evidence-based medicine, gaps in medical knowledge are filled by tradition, common sense, and experience, giving rise to medical myths. METHODS: We explored the origins of and evidence related to four medical myths: patients with shellfish allergies should not receive intravenous contrast, patients with atrial fibrillation of less than