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Continuing Medical Education

A survey of consultant psychiatrists' attitudes and practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Peter Brook  and
Richard Wakeford
Peter Brook
Affiliation:
Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge
Richard Wakeford
Affiliation:
Office of the Regius Professor of Physic, School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge University
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Despite some general interest in the development and evaluation of continuing education for health professionals, the voluminous research literature on the subject is unfortunately equivocal as to exactly what approaches work and in which situations. In 1977, Bertram and Brookes-Bertram reviewed 113 studies of continuing medical education (CME): they found that three out of the eight studies which they judged as acceptably designed showed persistent positive effects. More recently, of six studies which examined the effect of CME upon the quality of care, half reported positive effects and half reported no effect, although all the studies demonstrated cognitive improvements.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , February 1987 , pp. 38 - 42
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