| Skills and topics in continuing medical education for rural doctors. | |
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PMID: 11232067 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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BACKGROUND: Organizations that fund and produce continuing medical education (CME) activities must have up-to-date information on the needs of their participants. The paper describes a method for assessing priorities for the provision of facilities to rural doctors in Australia for educational topics and skills upgrades. It uses an instrument designed to establish a measure of knowledge and skills that records the difference between the "current felt need" and "desired level of competence." METHODS: A questionnaire was sent to all identifiable rural doctors throughout Australia, including participants in various types of practice. The resulting dataset is designed for future dissection and comparison of subsets by gender, practice size, rurality, and style of practice (whether procedural). It seeks to deliver a prioritized list of educational topics based on subjective gap analysis with weighting on the degree to which the need is unmet. RESULTS: There was considerable consonance between the major "felt needs" and other measures of need. IMPLICATIONS: In spite of statistical deficiencies, which would be corrected in future work, the method offers a new instrument to prioritize the use of resources for CME delivery. |
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Authors:
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F M Hoyal |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: The Journal of continuing education in the health professions Volume: 20 ISSN: 0894-1912 ISO Abbreviation: J Contin Educ Health Prof Publication Date: 2000 |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2001-03-05 Completed Date: 2001-04-19 Revised Date: 2004-11-17 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8805847 Medline TA: J Contin Educ Health Prof Country: Canada |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 13-9 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Rural Health Education Foundation, P.O. Box 191, Malanda 4885, Queensland, Australia. |
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Australia Education, Medical, Continuing* Humans Needs Assessment / statistics & numerical data* Physicians* Questionnaires Rural Population* |
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