More about Anne Taylor-Vaisey MLS …

Anne developed an ongoing interest in continuing health education during her nine years with the Office of Continuing Education, University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. In 2000 she joined Integrated Healthcare Communications Inc. as an information specialist, then in 2001 returned to the academic world as Reference Librarian for the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College. Since 2000 Anne has been Web Editor for the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME). She also moderates two listservs: CE_Current_Awareness, for continuing health education researchers and providers; and CE_Chiro, for complementary and alternative medicine practitioners and researchers (particularly chiropractors). Anne recently started a blog for the members of these groups, Anne T-V's Blog

Anne is devoted to her students, much to the amusement of her CMCC colleague, Steve, who says: Anne's relentless enthusiasm and soul-crushing commitment to education makes learning almost an inevitability, sort of like death, but not quite so unpleasant. Best approached behind lead shielding in case you end up learning something whether you want to or not. Four stars....... but not for those who think ignorance is bliss.

Selected Publications

Feise RJ, Grod JP, Taylor-Vaisey A. Effectiveness of an evidence-based chiropractic continuing education workshop on participant knowledge of evidence-based health care. Chiropr & Osteopat 2006; 14(1) http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1186/1746-1340-14-18 Abstract

Taylor-Vaisey A. The SACME Web site: navigating seas of information. INTERCOM 2002; 15(1):8-9. Full text

Davis DA, , Sinclair L, Taylor-Vaisey A, Tipping J, Moore DE, Jr., Barker M. Evaluating educational outcomes: an electronic workbook for continuing medical education providers. Birmingham AB: Alliance for Continuing Medical Education, 2001.

Kroenke K, Taylor-Vaisey A, Dietrich AJ, Oxman TE. Interventions to improve provider diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders in primary care. A critical review of the literature. Psychosomatics 2000; 41(1):39-52. PubMed

Davis DA, O'Brien MA, Freemantle N, Wolf FM, Mazmanian P, Taylor-Vaisey A. Impact of formal continuing medical education: do conferences, workshops, rounds, and other traditional continuing education activities change physician behavior or health care outcomes? JAMA 1999; 282(9):867-874. PubMed

Sibbald G, Tipping J, Taylor-Vaisey A. Planning group continuing education for maintenance of certification (rounds, journal clubs, case conferences, workshops, courses, seminars, meetings, distance education programs): a handbook for implementation. Toronto ON: University of Toronto Department of Medicine, 1999.

Davis DA, Taylor-Vaisey A. Translating guidelines into practice. A systematic review of theoretic concepts, practical experience and research evidence in the adoption of clinical practice guidelines. CMAJ 1997; 157(4):408-416. PubMed

Davis DA, Taylor-Vaisey A. Two decades of Dixon: the question(s) of evaluating continuing education in the health professions. J Contin Educ Health Prof 1997; 17(4):207-213. Abstract

Silverberg J, Taylor-Vaisey A, Tipping J, Szalai JP. Lectures, interactive learning, and knowledge retention in continuing medical education. J Contin Educ Health Prof 1995; 15(4):231-234. Abstract