Last week, I mused a bit about mandatory CME and outcomes measurement. Today, thanks to a very nice reader, I read "No to Mandatory Continuing Education, yes to mandatory practice auditing and professional education development," which may be...

A news flash from the Accreditation Council for CME ...

I couldn't believe it when I saw this article on the front page of today's Boston Globe: Psychiatry funding questioned: Drug firms aid Mass. General. But it's a relatively upside article, even with quotes from Arnold Relman about how drug money...

The New Yorker magazine ran an excellent article a little while back by Jerome Groopman on how medical simulators are changing the way doctors are trained. It's long, but it's a very well-written look at how this technology is changing things for...

I've been doing a lot of thinking about New Jersey's new mandatory cultural competency training, and about mandatory CME in general. While I laud the intent to improve healthcare workers' cultural competency, how on earth are we supposed to know...

According to this announcement in Medical News Today...

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Table of contents for the May 14 BMJ Here's one I want to read: Open access and openly accessible: a study of scientific publications shared via the internet, Jonathan D. Wren, BMJ 2005-1128 ( Link)

This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Research Question: On-line interactive learning: What are physicians' perspectives of it? Is it effective? ...

You canregister online now for the 16th Annual Conference on CME Provider/Industry Collaboration, scheduled for Oct. 24-26 in Baltimore--if you register before Sept. 1, you get the early-bird discount...

This post courtesy ofAnne Taylor-Vaisey: Here is a feature I use almost every working day of my life. It is a great ...