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ABSTRACT: Improving participant feedback to continuing medical education presenters in internal medicine: a mixed-methods study.

Abstract BACKGROUND: Feedback is essential for improving the skills of continuing medical education (CME) presenters. However, there has been little research on improving the quality of feedback to CME presenters. OBJECTIVES: To validate an instrument for generating balanced and behavior-specific feedback from a national cross-section of participants to presenters at a large internal medicine

ABSTRACT: Measuring Faculty Reflection on Medical Grand Rounds at Mayo Clinic: Associations With Teaching Experience, Clinical Exposure, and Presenter Effectiveness.

Abstract OBJECTIVES: To develop and validate a new instrument for measuring participant reflection on continuing medical education (CME) and determine associations between the reflection instrument scores and CME presenter, participant, and presentation characteristics. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS: This was a prospective validation study of presenters and faculty at the weekly medical grand rounds at Mayo

ABSTRACT: Continuing medical education: How to write multiple choice questions. [spanish]

Abstract Evaluating professional competence in medicine is a difficult but indispensable task because it makes it possible to evaluate, at different times and from different perspectives, the extent to which the knowledge, skills, and values required for exercising the profession have been acquired. Tests based on multiple choice questions have been

Continuing education meetings and workshops: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes (Review)

In this update, we examined the effects of continuing education meetings on professional practice and patient outcomes. We also investigated factors that might influence the effectiveness of educational meetings. We used methods that have been developed by the Cochrane Effective Practice and Organisation of Care (EPOC) Group (Grimshaw 2003) since the previous review ( O’Brien 2001).

MANUSCRIPT: Intended Practice Changes and Barriers among Primary Care Providers

Background. The purpose of accredited CME has recently been enhanced to change competence, performance or patient outcomes. In addition, CME providers seeking accreditation with commendation are required to implement educational strategies to remove, overcome or address barriers to physician change. However, current methods to measure intended changes in practice and