BMJ 1999;318:1276-1279 ( 8 May )

Education and debate

Does continuing medical education in general practice make a difference?

Peter Cantillon, lecturer,  Roger Jones, Wolfson professor. 

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Guy's, King's and St Thomas's School of Medicine, King's College, London SE11 6SP

Correspondence to: Dr Cantillon peter.cantillon@kcl.ac.uk

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Continuing medical education (CME) has undergone enormous changes in recent years in terms of its theoretical base, the methodologies used, and the expectations of what it should deliver. It has become an increasingly important concern for governments and patients as well as doctors. As reaccreditation and quality assurance programmes have become more widespread, the effectiveness of continuing medical education in changing clinical behaviour has come under closer scrutiny.

Davis defines continuing medical education as "any and all the ways by which doctors learn after formal completion of their training."¹ Grant and Stanton distinguish between continuing medical education and continuing professional development.² Continuing medical education is seen as representing a more teacher based, didactic style whereas continuing professional development implies a more learner centred and self directed approach to learning. These terms are used interchangeably in the literature. For the purposes of this article we will refer to all postgraduate educational . . . [Full text of this article]

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