Continuing Medical Education Survey
10-24 February 2000
Final Results, with 946 people responding:1. How important are the following to your continuing
medical education and professional development?
| Results | Very important |
Important | Neither important nor unimportant |
Unimportant | Very unimportant |
|
| 1_1 | Reading (books, journals, electronic resources) | 75% | 22% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| 1_2 | Course attendance | 23% | 58% | 13% | 3% | 1% |
| 1_3 | Courses taken electronically (using CD or internet) | 13% | 38% | 31% | 12% | 4% |
| 1_4 | Local meetings | 17% | 53% | 20% | 6% | 2% |
| 1_5 | National meetings | 15% | 45% | 24% | 10% | 4% |
| 1_6 | International meetings | 20% | 28% | 24% | 11% | 15% |
2. How important are the following factors in your choice of
continuing medical education and professional development?
| Results | Very important |
Important | Neither important nor unimportant |
Unimportant | Very unimportant |
|
| 2_1 | Response to everyday clinical situations | 63% | 29% | 4% | 1% | 1% |
| 2_2 | Personal interests | 39% | 52% | 7% | 0% | 0% |
| 2_3 | Formalised career plans | 14% | 43% | 30% | 8% | 3% |
| 2_4 | Requirements for revalidation or recertification | 14% | 43% | 29% | 8% | 4% |
3. Please give your level of interest in the following:
| Results | Very interested |
Quite interested |
Neither interested nor uninterested |
Not very interested |
Not interested at all |
|
| 3_1 | Accredited courses that are available on the internet | 37% | 44% | 11% | 4% | 1% |
| 3_2 | Courses that explicitly test your understanding of what is being taught | 40% | 48% | 7% | 1% | 1% |
| 4. User Category | Results |
| Medically qualified doctor: primary care (general/family practice) | 29% |
| Medically qualified doctor: secondary care (senior grade) | 27% |
| Medically qualified doctor: secondary care (junior grade) | 15% |
| Medically qualified doctor: other | 8% |
| Medical student | 2% |
| Other healthcare professional | 6% |
| Academic researcher | 4% |
| Pharmaceutical industry employee | 1% |
| Librarian | 1% |
| Member of the public | 1% |
| Patient or patient support group | 0% |
| Journalist | 0% |
| Other | 2% |
| 5. Country | Results |
| Australia | 4% |
| Canada | 3% |
| Germany | 2% |
| Italy | 4% |
| Netherlands | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1% |
| Spain | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 42% |
| United States | 4% |
| Other | 33% |
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