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Continuing Medical Education in the United StatesAn Enterprise in Transition
William Campbell Felch, MD
JAMA. 1987;258(10):1355-1357.
Abstract
The nation's continuing medical education (CME) enterprise is undergoing profound change. Once a simple teacher-to-learner activity, CME has now grown into an immense undertaking that is increasingly complex and costly. Simultaneously, it has evoked reactions from certain critics who find fault with its premises, its methods, and its outcomes. But CME's age-old mission—to help practicing physicians maintain their competence in patient care—has not changed, and even today's unwieldy, perhaps flawed, enterprise has not strayed from that basic commitment. Moreover, CME is showing encouraging indications of a willingness to incorporate into its process sound principles of adult education. Even more encouraging are the signs that CME is beginning to make use of computer and other electronic technologies in ways that promise to mend some of its flaws and restore its historical learner-oriented focus.
(JAMA 1987;258:1355-1357)
Author Affiliations
From the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, New York.
Footnotes
Read in part before the First International Conference on Continuing Medical Education, Rancho Mirage, Calif, Nov 30, 1986.
This article does not necessarily reflect the policy or opinions of the Alliance for Continuing Medical Education.
Reprint requests to Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, 265 Purchase St, Rye, NY 10580 (Dr Felch).
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