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ABSTRACT: The Rapidly Increasing Usefulness of Social Media in Urogynecology

OBJECTIVE: We assessed the availability and quality of urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse information in social medias and the growth of such information in the past 13 months. METHODS: We focused on the most popular social medias (Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube) to evaluate the key words "urogynecology," "pelvic organ prolapse," "stress incontinence,"

ABSTRACT: Health Care Social Media: Engagement and Health Care in the Digital Era

Health care as an industry continues in reluctant participation with consumers through social networks. Factors behind health cares laggard position range from providers concerns about patient privacy and lack of personal psychic bandwidth to organizational anxiety about employee time management and liability for online behavior. Despite these concerns, our patients

ABSTRACT: Integrating Interprofessional Education into Continuing Education: A Planning Process for Continuing Interprofessional Education Programs

Informal continuing interprofessional education (CIPE) can be traced back decades in the United States; however, interest in formal CIPE is recent. Interprofessional education (IPE) now is recognized as an important component of new approaches to continuing education (CE) that are needed to increase health professionals' ability to improve outcomes of

ABSTRACT: A Framework for Assessing Continuing Professional Development Activities for Satisfying Pharmacy Revalidation Requirements

Introduction: The United Kingdom's pharmacy regulator contemplated using continuing professional development (CPD) in pharmacy revalidation in 2009, simultaneously asking pharmacy professionals to demonstrate the value of their CPD by showing its relevance and impact. The idea of linking new CPD requirements with revalidation was yet to be explored. Our aim was

ABSTRACT: Internists’ Views of Maintenance of Certification: A Stages-of-Change Perspective

Introduction: Board certification has evolved from a “point-in-time” event to a process of periodic learning and reevaluation of medical competence through maintenance of certification (MOC). To better understand MOC participation, the transtheoretical model (TTM) was used to describe physicians' perceptions of MOC as a sequence of attitudinal changes. Method: Data were from a